El Dorado: The Search For The Long Lost Ancient City Of Gold | Myth Hunters | Timeline

Published 2024-04-20
Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado, a fabulously rich and sophisticated kingdom that was once home to thousands of people living deep in the Amazon jungle. To most people it was just a legend. But for British explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, it was real. Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it.

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All Comments (21)
  • Thank you for not flooding this show with advertisements every 10 mins. Makes the show sooo much better. 😊❤
  • The lost city of Z was one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched. Told the story of the lost city so well, and the acting was phenomenal. 10/10 definitely recommend
  • @Zman82
    I wish this series was more accessible. It was on Amazon a few years ago. I watched most of the first season. Takes you to another time in alot of the episodes.
  • @jeffnichols7834
    I find it interesting that all the clues that told him to turn back or stop the exploration and yet he continued to do it. It's interesting how people willingly search for things but sometimes those things should not be found.
  • @M3W3
    I am actually more impressed with the guide, it tools them so many days and hardship in exploration yet the guide can run up and down as if a breeze to deliver written news… the guide probably know the place even better than anyone else
  • @Bobcat753
    This should be named the Life and times of Percy Fawcett, there is very little in it related to archeology.
  • Wonderful documentary about that lost ancient civilization (El Dorado)legend, sharing by an excellent ( Timeline) channel.
  • @cynthiaalver
    Great video! I was enthralled and sad when it was over. Thank you.
  • @maggieekane7845
    Great documentary on past large civilizations of South America. We have been discovering more and more remarkable evidences of causeways, trading btwn areas, agricultural attempts. It won’t surprise me that we will find Amazon societies that excited centuries, even millennia ago! 👍🥰
  • @Acer_Maximinus
    It was a classic tactic of native tribes to tell explorers that what they’re looking for is in a far off direction. Just to lead them away.
  • @DutchFurnace
    The idea that Western explorers are responsible for the death of this civilization has always been weird to me, as they already reported a declining civilization with abandoned cities from the very beginning, and then I'm talking about the locals who gave this information to the explorers causing the desire for exploration by these explorers who'd be later be blamed for the death of the civilization they were exploring based on the "we're the last of a great civilization" information from the locals.
  • @G02372
    I visited a lake in Colombia where the muisca tribe of used to throw in small pure gold rafts and statues as part of their ceremonies. I was told it ties in with the El dorado story. Over the centuries people have attempted to drain the lake and dive but it is simply too deep. I saw examples of the statues and rafts in the Gold museum in Bogotá, an incredible sight.
  • I liked the history, the story at the end 😮 I really enjoyed the videos of the Amazon‼️💥🌎
  • @missbusanbeth
    The hubris of thinking that our modern methods must be the best, and that our ancestors couldn't have innovated better than us
  • @mentalmetalist
    The Amazon soil blows my mind. Someone figured it out and it can’t be replicated. We can pay a little more for steaks. Protect the jungle
  • @oobrocks
    I highly recommend Aguirre, Wrath of God; incredible film ❤🎉