TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran officials said Friday that archaeologists have begun excavations at a mysterious site on Honduras’ Caribbean coast that may be the long-rumoured “White City” ruins.

More than half a millennium after the collapse of the Mayan civilization, the members of a neighboring Central American society suddenly gathered their most sacred belongings, buried them in the ...

(Tegucigalpa) - Honduras said Thursday it was starting a major archeological dig for a mysterious, ancient "White City" supposedly hidden in jungle in its northeast that explorers and legends have ...

In a round valley ringed by steep cliffs lies an ancient community buried beneath the rain forest. The 1,000-year-old ruins — whose timeline coincides with a legendary "lost city" — were uncovered ...

Legend has it the ruins were the site of the "City of the Monkey God." A “were-jaguar” effigy, likely representing a combination of a human and spirit animal, is part of a still-buried ceremonial seat ...

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A group of researchers claims to have discovered the remnants of what may be “a lost city” in eastern Honduras, after a recent expedition revealed plazas, mounds, an earthen pyramid and dozens of ...

Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. Archeology, adventure and disease in a Honduran jungle. Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Douglas Preston Grand ...

Local folklore spoke of a mystical Eden-like paradise where human-monkey children roamed. Others described a city of gold where a giant monkey deity was worshipped You can save this article by ...