A team of American and Honduran archaeologists has announced the discovery of the legendary “White City,” believed to be filled with the lost gold of the Monkey God in Central America. This revelation has instantly sparked excitement within the global archaeological community.
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Here are some intriguing discoveries about the “White City Filled with Gold”
The legendary “White City” is rumored to be submerged in gold and was built by a mysterious civilization as grand as the Aztecs and Maya. (Illustration: Landmark Media)
The first person to claim he discovered “La Ciudad Blanca” was American explorer Theodore Morde. This was on July 12, 1940, when Morde returned from an expedition to the darkest jungles of Central America with a fascinating tale of what he found there.
Morde, a real-life Indiana Jones and later a wartime spy for the U.S., was hired by the founder of the renowned American Museum of Natural History in New York to search for the legendary “White City,” which was said to be filled with gold and created by a mysterious civilization as grand as the Aztec and Maya cultures.
Explorers have been hunting for La Ciudad Blanca for centuries, since the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortés occupied Central America in the early 16th century and heard rumors of its wealth. However, the legendary city remained hidden for hundreds of years until Morde insisted he found it in the tropical rainforests of Mosquitia, a rugged area spanning over 82,879.6 km² in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Morde described how he and his companion, Lawrence Brown, armed only with a pistol and a machete, spent four months carving a path through the “nearly inaccessible” jungle, swamps, rivers, and mountains, before reaching a hidden valley containing the ruins of a walled city built of white stone.
The indigenous people there told him that a tribe contemporary with the ancient Maya, long since vanished, once worshipped a strange monkey god. A massive statue of this monkey god remained buried under centuries of vegetation.
The mysterious tribe conducted bloody human sacrifices for their monkey god, then cannibalized the victims as part of their ritualistic practices. Morde claimed that during his brief journey, he witnessed a horrifying ceremony in which the locals executed and consumed monkeys at the site of the “White City.”
There is also another legend that the Monkey God created many descendants, a half-human, half-monkey race nicknamed “the hairy people“. The locals believe that monkeys from the deep forest once kidnapped maidens from their villages to bear hybrid offspring, and that the “White City” was protected by curses.
To validate his astonishing claims, Morde, then just 29 years old and having traveled around the world five times, brought back thousands of artifacts to America, such as stone tools and small monkey-shaped masks. He never disclosed the exact location of the ruined city for fear it would be looted before he could return.
However, Morde never returned and died mysteriously in 1954, taking with him to the grave the secret of the “White City“‘s location. Some fervent believers suggest that Morde’s death was a warning from the indigenous people about a curse that would befall anyone who disturbed the peace of the forbidden city.
Generations of explorers have flocked into the deep jungle searching for the city but failed. Experts have even declared Morde’s discovery to be a hoax intended to elevate his own status.
Nevertheless, skeptics may now have to retract their accusations. A team of American and Honduran archaeologists has just returned from La Mosquitia and announced that they have found what is believed to be the city of the monkey god as described by Morde, in a volcano-shaped tropical rainforest valley surrounded by steep mountains.
According to National Geographic magazine, which accompanied the expedition, the archaeological team conducted surveys and mapped “vast plazas, fortifications, earthen mounds, and a clay pyramid belonging to a developed culture that vanished over 1,000 years ago.”
The research team also uncovered an impressive collection of stone carvings, perfectly preserved since the city was abandoned.
Christopher Fisher, an archaeologist from Colorado State University and a member of the research team, believes that the carvings found at the base of this pyramid may have been used as offerings to the monkey god. Fisher and his colleagues first discovered traces of the site nearly three years ago during an aerial survey using high-tech scanners capable of penetrating the forest canopy with laser light.
The results revealed that the site spans over 1.6 km along a river flowing through the valley. This remote and treacherous area lies along a key cocaine smuggling route, prompting scientists to access it by helicopter, accompanied by Honduran special forces and former members of British special air services.
Wild animals frequently wandered through the research camp, clearly having never encountered humans before.
Without the need for excavation, the experts also found 52 artifacts protruding from the ground, including ceremonial stone seats and intricately carved vessels adorned with images of snakes, vultures, and animals.
The most intriguing of the artifacts found is a stone head with fierce fangs, resembling half-human, half-beast. Fisher believes this is not a “werewolf” but rather a “jaguar man” representing a shaman in a transformative state.
According to scientists, the ancient culture that created this little-known city has not yet been given a proper name, although Morde referred to it as the Chorotegan.
