But where does history end and myth begin in the legend of El Dorado? For millennia before the Spanish first landed in the ...

The legend of El Dorado endures because "you want it to be true," says Jose Oliver, a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. "I don't think we've ever stopped ...

Our obsession with gold spans many eras and nationalities. Our lust for this shiny metal gave rise to the myth of El Dorado, a lost city of gold waiting to be discovered by adventurous conquerors.

By the time Raleigh was released, in March 1616, the exploration of Guiana by the English explorer Thomas Roe had shown that El Dorado was likely a myth. But seizing on Roe’s confirmation of ...