"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 ...

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).

S ince early Spanish colonial chronicles of the 16th century first alleged the existence of a lost city of gold in the depths ...

“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 ...

The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado, while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea ...

On 23 September, 1641, an English galleon named the Merchant Royal, loaded with gold and silver, sank off the coast of Cornwall. The wreck remains lost to this day ... to transport silver and gold to ...

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 ...