there are a number of ancient cities
considered myths by most authors that
some believe existed before a written
history in different places on earth the
lost city of Z just like Atlantis is one
such mysterious place there is an
extremely interesting document referred
to as manuscript 512 located in the
Brazilian National Library in Rio de
Janeiro it mentions how a group of
explorers stumbled upon a ruined ancient
city in the eastern parts of Brazil in
1753 this magnificent stone city was
unlike any other city they've ever seen
with architecture early reminiscent of
that of ancient Greece and mysterious
writings not native to the region the
most famous person to ever search for
this lost city was a man called Colonel
Percy Harrison Fawcett a renowned
Explorer who tried discovering the
long-lost city thought to remain hidden
somewhere in the Amazon jungle according
to myths and legends the lost city of Z
would have been erected in very ancient
times by the descendants of Atlantis it
is believed that the Atlanteans who
survived the destruction of their home
escaped to a number of different regions
on earth and some of them ended up in
the Amazon where they eventually settled
down Colonel Fawcett made eight
expeditions disappearing in the last one
under very strange circumstances did he
find the lost city of Z in the Amazonian
jungle could the lost city of Z be
connected to El Dorado and Atlantis and
what exactly happened to Colonel Fawcett
in his last expedition join the universe
inside you and let us dive together into
this enigmatic mystery
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during the Age of Exploration stories of
lost mythical cities were very popular
but where do stories about massive
cities made of gold inhabited by
powerful beings come from we can say
that part of the stories come from the
old continent many years after Plato's
description of Atlantis when the
European explorers began arriving at the
Americas the myths and legends of
supernatural creatures and pseudo human
tribes slowly gave way to stories of
massive ancient cities hidden in the
heart of the jungle but what exactly is
the reason some others would argue that
thanks to the abundance of indigenous
communities that the Europeans faced
their exuberant religious rights fed the
European fantasies which quickly spread
thinking of a great civilization whose
wealth one cannot imagine was quickly
acknowledged as a common idea an idea
that would later according to many
authors become known as The Legend of El
Dorado and that moreover satisfied the
delirious hunger for gold of the first
and several of the following visitors to
the continent legends of such wealthy
abandoned cities served as a perfect
inspiration for thousands of explorers
conquistadors and settlers to dive
fearlessly into the unknown however
that's not the case of the lost city of
Z what's different about this
magnificent city is that unlike the
other myths and legends there is actual
evidence of its existence
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was a
British explorer who named the lost city
of Z in 1912 after finding an ancient
document titled manuscript 512 which is
now kept in the national library of
Brazil the document called manuscript
512 is believed to have been authored by
a Portuguese bonded anthis de bunda
Dantas were 17th century Portuguese
settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters
though they originally aim to capture
and enslave
Native Americans the Bondurant is later
began to focus their expeditions on
finding gold silver and diamond mines as
they ventured into unmapped regions in
search of profit and adventure they
expanded the effective borders of the
Brazilian colony one of these banded
antis was joe el de silva giladhiz the
man who discovered the ruins of a mighty
ancient city containing arches statues
and temples covered in hieroglyphs deep
in the Amazonian jungle in the year of
1753 the mysterious manuscript 512 was
written by this man and in it he
described the city in great detail
although he did not give its location
the enigmatic manuscript is completed
with curious details such as documenting
the discovery of a bag of gold coins
bearing the silhouette of an archer and
a crown or the reproduction of
hieroglyphs copied from various corners
of the city which some say bear an
uncanny similarity with Greek and
Phoenician letters these strange
characters were engraved on the great
stones sealing the vault of treasure
that the bond Arista could not open
access to the original manuscript in the
National Library of Brazil is extremely
limited at present although a digital
version of this became available with a
digital update of the National Library
the fascinating manuscript was
discovered many years later and inspired
many explorers to search for the lost
city the most prominent of these
explorers was the man who discovered the
letter
Colonel Percy Fawcett who became
extremely obsessed with it he was the
leader of numerous expeditions he made
seven expeditions between 1906 and 1924
with him even returning home to serve in
the first world war throughout his many
travels Fossett had heard rumors of a
secret ancient underground city located
somewhere in the jungles of Chile which
according to tales legends and reports
was made of streets paved with silver
and
of gold after discovering the manuscript
which confirmed the existence of this
enigmatic City Fossett was sure it's
real and it's out there in the depths of
the jungles waiting to be discovered
Fawcett wrote about the lost city of Z
in a letter to his son in 1912
I expect the ruins to be monolithic in
character more ancient than the oldest
Egyptian discoveries judging by
inscriptions found in many parts of
Brazil the inhabitants used in
alphabetical writing allied to many
ancient European and Asian scripts there
are rumors too of a strange source of
light in the buildings a phenomenon that
filled with terror the Indians who claim
to have seen it the central place I call
Z our main objective is in a valley
surmounted by lofty mountains the valley
is about ten miles wide and the city is
on an eminence in the middle of it
approached by a barreled roadway of
stone the houses are low and windowless
and there is a pyramidal temple the
inhabitants of the place are fairly
numerous they keep domestic animals and
they have well-developed mines in the
surrounding hills not far away is a
second town but the people living in it
are of an inferior order to those of Z
farther to the south is another large
city half buried and completely
destroyed
judging by this letter Colonel Fawcett
fervently believed in the existence of
this city and he was determined to be
the man who would discover it in 1920 he
made a solo attempt to search for Z but
ended after suffering from a fever and
shooting his pack animal after five
years of preparation in March of 1925
with funding from a london-based group
of financed ears known as the glove and
the Royal Geographic Society Fawcett
returned to Brazil with his eldest son
Jack and Jack's best and longtime friend
for an exploratory expedition to find
the lost city of Z Fawcett left
instructions stating that if the
expedition did not return no rescue
expedition should be sent lest the
rescuers suffer his fate Fawcett having
years of experience traveling was very
prepared this time he had brought
equipment such as canned foods powdered
milk guns flares a sextant and a
chronometer his travel companions were
both chosen for their health ability and
loyalty to each other
Fawcett chose only two companions in
order to travel lighter
and with less notice to native tribes as
some were hostile towards outsiders he
was certain that his expedition would
culminate with the discovery of the
mythical city in May of 1925 the
expedition's had reached the edge of
uncharted territory exploring an area
that no foreigner had ever dared cross
Fossett's beliefs were greatly
influenced on what the Indians had told
him about alleged lost cities spread
across the Amazon jungle
even his penultimate letter mentions one
such tail correspondence from Colonel
Fawcett dated May 20th 1925 reads I saw
the Indian chief Roberto and had a talk
with him under the expanding influence
of wine he corroborated all my Kuya a
friend told me and more owing to what
his grandfather had told him he always
wanted to make the journey to the
waterfall but is now too old he is of
the opinion that bad Indians are
numerous there but committed himself to
the statement that his ancestors have
built the old cities this I'm inclined
to doubt for he like the mechanic who
Indians is of the brown or Polynesian
type and it is the fair or red type I
associate with the cities the team
travelled into territory that no one had
ever seen they faced many dangers but
they wouldn't give up eventually they
reached an area called Deadhorse camp
when Fawcett sent back dispatches for
another five months finally stopping
after the fifth in this dispatch on the
29th of May 1925 he would send a letter
to his wife
My dear Nina the attempt to write is
fraught with much difficulty thanks to
the legions of flies that pester one
from dawn till dusk and sometimes all
through the night the worst are the tiny
ones that are smaller than a pinhead
almost invisible but sting like a
mosquito clouds of them are always
present millions of bees add to the
plague and other bugs galore stinging
Horrors they get all over one's hands
even the head nets won't keep them out
and as for mosquito nets the pests fly
through them
it is quite maddening we hope to get
through this region in a few days and
are camped here for a while to arrange
for the return of the peons who are
anxious to get back having had enough of
it and I don't blame them we go on with
eight animals three saddle mules for
cargo mules and a madrina a leading
animal which keeps the others together
jack is well and fit and getting
stronger every day even though he
suffers a bit from insects I myself am
bitten or stung by ticks and these PM's
as they call the tiny ones all over the
body
it is Rolly I am anxious about he still
has one leg in a bandage but won't go
back so far we have plenty of food and
no need to walk but I'm not sure how
long this will last there may be little
for the animals to eat as we head
further in I cannot hope to stand up on
this journey better than jack or Ollie
my extra years tell though I do my best
to make up for it with enthusiasm but I
had to do this I calculate that I shall
contact the Indians in about a week
perhaps ten days when we should be able
to reach the much-talked-about waterfall
here we are a dead horse camp latitude
110 43 South and 5 40 35 West the spot
where my horse died in 1920 only his
white bones remain we can bathe
ourselves here but the insects make it a
matter of great haste nevertheless the
season is good it is very cold at night
and fresh in the morning but the insects
and heat are out in full force come
midday and from then until evening it is
sheer misery and camp you need have no
fear of any failure those were the final
words of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
two years passed and nothing was heard
from him his son and the men who
followed them one of the famous
explorers in history along with all of
the members of his expedition has
completely disappeared
without any trace and no one had an idea
of what happened to them this resulted
in many expeditions being launched in
order to find them mysteriously each
expedition suffered the same fate as
Fawcett's
everyone who followed the footsteps of
Colonel Fawcett disappeared completely
or lost their lives during the attempt
Fawcett's disappearance resulted in a
total of 13 expeditions being mounted in
which more than 100 people lost their
lives attempting to find not only
Fawcett but the legendary lost city of Z
as well no one knows what exactly
happened to Fawcett his expedition and
to more than 100 people that set out to
search for him numerous theories were
proposed eventually some say Fawcett and
his team were killed by an Amazonian
tribe while others suggest they may have
starved drowned or suffered from a
disease there are some who say that
Fawcett and his team reached the lost
city of Z
and perhaps spend their last days there
perhaps the lost city of Z is still
somewhere out there in the depths of the
Amazon jungle perhaps we'll never
discover its whereabouts this video was
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