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Title: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: jimmy olsen on 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.
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Capetan Mihali on March 05, 2015, 08:09:54 PM
Morde! :o
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Josquius on March 08, 2015, 05:24:11 AM
Amazing you can lose a city in a country so small
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on March 08, 2015, 05:34:40 AM
don't tell ISIS
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Siege on March 10, 2015, 03:11:04 PM
Isis is not in the western hemisphere....
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Josquius on 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....
What are you then?
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Valmy on March 10, 2015, 06:23:41 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 10, 2015, 05:05:41 PM
What are you then?

A proud member of the Armed Forces of the United States?
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Eddie Teach on 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:
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Martinus on March 12, 2015, 08:34:13 AM
Tell me when they discover the Lost City of Monkey Butt.
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: derspiess on 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.
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Ed Anger on March 12, 2015, 09:32:21 AM
HEY NOW
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: derspiess on 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.
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Ed Anger on March 12, 2015, 09:45:59 AM
OH MY GOD
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Valmy on 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?
Title: Re: Lost 'City of the Monkey God' Discovered in Honduras
Post by: Ed Anger on March 12, 2015, 09:52:07 AM
I have my sweater vest. TRESSEL