"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 long-sought lost city of gold has returned to the realm of myth and legend. However, the historical and cultural ...
Then a Spanish soldier named Juan Martín de Albujar claimed on his deathbed to have visited the golden city ... that El Dorado was likely a myth. But seizing on Roe’s confirmation of gold ...
In the 16th century, Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh set sail in search of El Dorado, a legendary city full of gold and precious jewels. 400 years on, and with the site of El Dorado still ...