El Dorado, as it is presented in Paddington in Peru, is a far cry from what the real legends say about it.When Paddington and the Brown Family finally reach El Dorado at the end of the film, they ...

El Dorado, we surmise, is ephemeral in its charms and enticement. Edgar Allen Poe portrayed his Gallant Knight’s search for El Dorado as an unreality, a myth not found in the real world.

The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek to South America, but it was all wishful thinking. The golden one was actually not a place but a person, as ...

Archaeologists debate any truth to the legend of El Dorado. The scene depicted in this ancient artwork, on display at the Gold Museum in Bogota, Colombia, shows the origin of the El Dorado myth.

By the early 19th century, most experts had classified the existence of El Dorado as a myth. But you never know! If anyone, inspired by reading this article, ...

The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek to South America, but it was all wishful thinking. The golden one was actually not a place but a person, as ...