"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 ...

Then a Spanish soldier named Juan Martín de Albujar claimed on his deathbed to have visited the golden city ... El Dorado. Mr. Helferich’s books include “Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost ...