Expedition team finds the White City of Gold in the Honduras rainforest

#Honduras #rainforest #NationalGeographic An expedition team of the National Geographic has, apparently, found the White City Of Gold in the rainforest of the Honduras. If ancient texts are to be believed, the ivory temples are supposed to be filled with treasure. This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 3 March 2015.
Conquistador Hernando Cortes had first made reference to it in a 1526 letter to King Charles V of Spain. However, there are other rather outlandish theories like the one put forth in 1940 by an American explorer Theodore Morde. He had mentioned about stone effigies of monkeys that lined the approach to the city's central temple built in the shape of the monkey God.
He had also suggested that the city had a giant monkey temple and a monkey God which stole women and raped them to breed half-monkey, half-human babies. This theory was supported by another anthropologist who had spoken to the locals at a later date.
However, while archaeologists tried to detect man-made structures beneath the luscious rainforest, their ventures did not bear fruit till the National Geographic team came along. They ventured into uncharted territory and discovered mounds of white rubble in the shape of a monkey's skull. These are believed to be thousands of years old.
Other items that they found are stone ceremonial seats (called metates) apart from finely carved vessels that were decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures, and vultures. It is felt that any positive identification of the fabled 'White City' of Ciudad Blanca would reignite hopes of discovering the legendary El Dorado or 'Lost City of Gold'.