"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 ...

“The empire of Guiana hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru,” wrote Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595. In the streets of its capital, El Dorado— “the City of Gold”—the precious metal lay like ...

Undoubtedly the most famous legend of a lost city of gold is that of El Dorado, a term now almost synonymous with a naïve quest for riches (as well as a short-lived British soap opera from the 1990s).

A mix of winter precipitation lightly coated the city during a winter storm that moved through the area Thursday night and Friday morning. Much of the storm bypassed El Dorado and headed northeast ...

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 ...