"I don't think we've ever stopped seeking El Dorado." So where is this lost city of gold? In his 1849 poem "El Dorado," writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an eerie and eloquent suggestion: "Over the ...
Around 1530, conquistadors in South America began to hear rumors of El Dorado ... city of El Callao, Venezuela, close to the area that Raleigh had scoured 250 years earlier. The world’s leading ...