Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras

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jimmy olsen

March 05, 2015, 06:56:50 PM
Awesome city name

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lost-city-monkey-god-discovered-honduras-n317296

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Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras

A National Geographic expedition has just returned from the jungles of Honduras, where they've confirmed the discovery of a lost city that belonged to a mysterious and virtually unknown civilization. The culture vanished suddenly a thousand years ago and archaeologists have yet to name it.

An article published on NationalGeographic.com tells the story of the legendary city sometimes referred to as the "City of the Monkey God":

For a hundred years, explorers and prospectors told tales of the white ramparts of a lost city glimpsed above the jungle foliage. Indigenous stories speak of a "white house" or a "place of cacao" where Indians took refuge from Spanish conquistadores—a mystical, Eden-like paradise from which no one ever returned.

Since the 1920s, several expeditions had searched for the White City, or Ciudad Blanca. The eccentric explorer Theodore Morde mounted the most famous of these in 1940, under the aegis of the Museum of the American Indian (now part of the Smithsonian Institution).

Morde returned from Mosquitia with thousands of artifacts, claiming to have entered the City. According to Morde, the indigenous people there said it contained a giant, buried statue of a monkey god. He refused to divulge the location out of fear, he said, that the site would be looted. He later committed suicide and his site—if it existed at all—was never identified.
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Capetan Mihali

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March 05, 2015, 08:09:54 PM
Morde! :o
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Josquius

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March 08, 2015, 05:24:11 AM
Amazing you can lose a city in a country so small
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Siege

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March 10, 2015, 03:11:04 PM
Isis is not in the western hemisphere....


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Josquius

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March 10, 2015, 05:05:41 PM
Quote from: Siege on March 10, 2015, 03:11:04 PM
Isis is not in the western hemisphere....
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Valmy

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March 10, 2015, 06:23:41 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2015, 05:05:41 PM
What are you then?

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March 12, 2015, 08:29:18 AM
He's in the Army, but his avatar shows that he aspires to be in the Navy.  :hmm:
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Martinus

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March 12, 2015, 08:34:13 AM
Tell me when they discover the Lost City of Monkey Butt.

derspiess

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March 12, 2015, 08:53:58 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 12, 2015, 08:34:13 AM
Tell me when they discover the Lost City of Monkey Butt.

That's Dayton.
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Ed Anger

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March 12, 2015, 09:32:21 AM
HEY NOW
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derspiess

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March 12, 2015, 09:40:57 AM
I bet you have your Buckeyes basketball jersey on already in anticipation of tonight's big matchup vs. Minnesota.
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Ed Anger

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March 12, 2015, 09:45:59 AM
OH MY GOD
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Valmy

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March 12, 2015, 09:50:50 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 12, 2015, 09:45:59 AM
OH MY GOD

Can't find your Brutus head?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ed Anger

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March 12, 2015, 09:52:07 AM
I have my sweater vest. TRESSEL
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