“The rainforest was so thick, you could barely see more than 20 feet in front of you,” Elkins said. “We were up in the mountains, many days by canoe ride from civilization, and we stumbled upon this huge boulder with a petroglyph: a man with a mask or helmet on, holding a stick and a sack with what looked like seeds coming out of it,” he told Live Science. Filmmaker David Elkins brought a team of scientists, survivalists and armed guards through Honduras’ La Mosquitia rainforest. Morde returned with tales from indigenous people from the area, who claimed that a giant statue of a monkey god had been buried there.Įlkins began his hunt in the 1990s - piqued by the discovery of a rock carving spotted deep in isolateed jungle territory. Scientists first identified an area of what could be the lost city in 2015 - some 75 years after American explorer Theodore Morde unearthed thousands of artifacts during his expedition to La Mosquitia, according to a National Geographic report, tied to the rediscovery of the White City. Amid nearly a century research into the remote Honduran rainforest, “Lost City of the Monkey God” examines a site thought to be the fabled “Ciudad Blanca.” Courtesy of Science Channel 31 on the Science Channel, follows filmmaker and explorer Doug Elkins as he and a team of researchers, survival specialists and several Honduran special forces soldiers, providing security for the crew, explore the presumed site, Live Science reported on Friday. The upcoming documentary, “Lost City of the Monkey God,” which airs Oct. ‘Urine flasks’ for drinking, diagnosing discovered at ancient hospital siteġ,000-year-old mummy of teen killed in possible human sacrifice found in PeruĪrcheologists in Italy unearth ancient dolphin statuetteĪmid nearly a century of research and exploration into the remote Honduran rainforest, a new documentary examines a site thought to be the fabled “Ciudad Blanca,” or “The White City.”Īccording to ancient lore, The White City, said to be dedicated to a pre-Columbian monkey-god deity, is buried somewhere in the 1,350 square miles of Honduras’ La Mosquitia region. 19th century hospital, cemetery found underwater off Florida Keys

Lost city of the monkey god