"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 ...

S ince early Spanish colonial chronicles of the 16th century first alleged the existence of a lost city of gold in the depths ...

The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado, while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea ...

Around 1530, conquistadors in South America began to hear rumors of El Dorado ... city of El Callao, Venezuela, close to the area that Raleigh had scoured 250 years earlier. The world’s leading ...