In the 1940s, an American explorer named Theodore Morde returned from an expedition to La Mosquitia with thousands of artifacts he declared that he had discovered the legendary city and that Indigenous people described an enormous statue of a monkey god that had been buried there, according to National Geographic.Įlkins' fascination with the White City began in the 1990s, when he first heard about the city while working as a television producer. Elkins was part of the team that discovered the ruins of what is thought to be the White City, in collaboration with the government of Honduras and Honduran scientists. However, the region is currently threatened by illegal logging and wildlife trafficking, creating serious risks not only for local habitats and biodiversity but also for the preservation of important archaeological sites that could become vulnerable to looting, filmmaker and explorer Doug Elkins told Live Science.
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