In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans believed that somewhere in the New World there was a place of immense wealth known as El Dorado. Their searches for this treasure wasted countless lives ...
Around 1530, conquistadors in South America began to hear rumors of El Dorado. Spanish for “the ... and his life in an obsessive, decadeslong quest for gold. Raleigh (or Ralegh, as he spelled ...