La Ciudad Blanca - The Lost White City!
Posted by Delaiah at 23:54, 09 Jun 2012High tech jungle mapping in Honduras may have revealed the location of a legendary lost city.
This is the Facebook page of the sponsoring entity, UTL Scientific LLC, formed by film-maker Steven Elkins (check the video at the bottom; looks like a grand plaza):
http://www.facebook.com/UTLScientificLLC
Some quick background on the legend and the object of adventurers since the conquistadors:
http://mosquitia.tripod.com/id1.html
University of Houston press release with the essential facts:
http://www.uh.edu/news-events/News%20Rel...
More background - website of The National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (the science guys with the cool lasers):
http://www.ncalm.cive.uh.edu/index.html
Unlike previous uses of the laser mapping, no one was certain if anything might actually be there or not. Now someone needs to get in there and take some pics!
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14 April 2009
3 weeks 2 days
so THAT's where Americans come from...:3
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1 May 2004
11 hours 50 min
It's sort of a hodgepodge of tales at this point. Some refer to the stone used for buildings as white. There's also a Quetzalcoatl link - legends say he was white, interestingly enough. Maybe somebody just wanted to get rid of Cortes by sending him deep into the jungle?
The mapping data is really intriguing. Some really large non-natural geometric returns located in a valley above the river. This really could be a major find.