They found it!! part 2

the found it!! part 2
cites:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156900/Legendary-lost-White-City-gold-discovered-dense-Central-American-jungle-advanced-laser-mapping.html
This will be my final blog, and it will be summing up the last of how they found the city of gold. For the past few weeks they have been traveling to were they think this city is hidden. Ive been trying to keep up with the news on this. The jungle is so dense that it will take researchers for a few more weeks. Its also very very hard to get ahold of these travelers, because they are so far out in the middle of no where. The parts where they are traveling only so few people have gone to. The rest of this article will be from were i left off from last weeks blog. "The original uses of the technology were to provide intelligence after earthquakes, military spying and for river erosion detection.Flying above the intended target area, LiDAR operates by sending out 100,000 short laser pulses to the ground each second.

The University of Houston and the NCALM team blanketed the Mosquitia rainforest with as many as 25-50 laser pulses every square metre that totaled up as more than four billion shots during the entire project.

Like a high-tech version of sonar, the light beams hit the ground and return to the aircraft and the time taken allows researchers to create 3D digital map of the surrounding topology.

Able to differentiate between differences in height of less than four inches, the University of Houston has worked with the NCALM to develop their LiDAR systems.Ciudad Blanca has played a central role in Central American mythology.Text's cite it as the birthplace of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and previous reported sightings over the years have described golden idols and elaborately carved white stones, leading to the lost city's name.

However, no confirmation of the existence of the city has ever been provided.If confirmed, the discovery of Ciudad Blanca would be comparable to the popularization of forgotten sites such as Machu Picchu, which lay ruined for hundreds of years until reintroduced to western eyes in 1911 by American historian Hiram Bingham."

And that includes the last of my blogs, I hope you enjoyed all of them. Thank you for following them along.

They found it!!

They found it!!
Emily Gill
Cites:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156900/Legendary-lost-White-City-gold-discovered-dense-Central-American-jungle-advanced-laser-mapping.html-This article was published on June 9th,2012.
I've been waiting over the past month and a half to share with you the discovery of the Lost Golden City. Before I even started writing these blogs, my father and I watched fox news tell the world that the city has been found by laser mapping technology and that brave travelers are now on there way into the dense Central American Rain Forest. My last two blogs will be completely surrounded by this discovery because there is so much information to be said. MailOnline.com says"A team of scientists using advanced laser mapping have detailed a remote region of Honduras that may have revealed the legendary lost city of Ciudad Blanca, known as the 'White City' of gold. Researchers from the University of Houston and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) flew over the Mosquitia region in a small plane shooting billions of laser pulses at the ground to create a 3D digital map of the topology beneath the jungle canopy.Compiling their data, the analysts revealed what appears to be man-made elevation changes that are thought to show a forgotten city plaza dotted with pyramids reclaimed by the jungle.According to legend, Ciudad Blanca or the 'White City' is full of gold and has been sought out by explorers and treasure hunters since conquistador Hernando Cortes first made reference to it in a 1526 letter to King Charles V of Spain.Inspired by this legend, cinematographer and Ciudad Blanca enthusiast Steven Elkins sought backing from private investors to pay for the team at NCLAM to use their laser mapping technology to chart the forest floor of Mosquitia.Over the course of a week, the NCALM and University of Houston engineers flew over 60 square miles of forest in their dual-engine Cessna planes.And at the end of each day, the data was transferred to Bill Carter, a University of Houston engineer who works with the NCLAM.He discovered the first indications of what appeared to be man-made structures in the jungle.'I'm the only person right now on the planet that knows that there's these ruins,' said Carter as he recalled his thoughts when he saw straight lines and right angles on the 3D digital map.'My wife walked in and looked over my shoulder and she was the second person to know.'This was one of the first times that laser mapping, specifically light detection and ranging (LiDAR) had been used to locate ancient ruins."- TO BE CONTINUED....

Abracadabra...the city is gone!

Abracadabra...the city is gone!
Emily Gill
10/21/12
Cites:http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tierney-dorado.html
Article date and author: May 22,1994 by Brent Staples.Our society found that the lost city of gold can be a great money maker, there is the movie Eldorado, the cartoon called The Lost City shown on TV in the 1980's, many many books and the video game and you can now buy from the app store called The Lost City. Which I did download to see what Americans have thought of what it looks like. To be completely honest the game sucked. Not worth your money but still the point is that, we as people are great wanderers. So when a whole city is lost, its going to create a sture among people. Even if its been a few hundred years, that just adds to the excitement. There are so many mysteries of the world like the lost Inca gold, Eldorado, the lost city of Atlantis, the crystal skulls and the fountain of youth. In the beginning I was having a hard time on if I should write about the lost city of Atlantic or gold. There is way more myth on the city of gold, so that was my better option. I had a hard time deciding what I was going to pin point about this article, I know for sure what my next two are going to be about but this one was sticky. So I'm going give you an incident that happened near where Eldorado is so- possibly located. New York Times says, "The thunderous descent of the military helicopter at the village of Dorita-teri drove Yanomami Indian women and children screaming into the surrounding plantain gardens. Out in the jungle, panic also reigned, as macaws and parrots, deer and tapirs scrambled to escape the machine. When the dust cleared, twenty Yanomami warriors were standing in a semicircle, yelling at seven white men and one white woman who had descended from the helicopter with television cameras and sound equipment. Most of the warriors held enormous bows and arrows. The headman wived all ax.
    The tumultuous landing in Dorita-teri, on May 17, 1991, created an impressive spectacle for the Venezuelan television crew, which was doing a special on "the purest human groups in existence." The community was located in the little-explored Siapa Highlands on the Brazil-Venezuela border, the Amazon's last frontier. These remote mountains also concealed the last intact cluster of aboriginal villages in the world—whose inhabitants were considered living relics of prehistoric culture. The seminomadic Yanomami spent their time hunting and trekking in much the same way humanity had done for countless generations. The anthropologist directing the expedition called them "our contemporary ancestors."

They came for the gold. They stayed for the adventure.

They came for the Gold. They stayed for the adventure.
Emily Gill
Cites:http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01E4DD123CF932A05750C0A9669C8B63

I received all my information from NewYorktimes.com The author is not shown and the dates are continuously being updated. This blog is going to rap around the movie "the Road to ElDorado" released into theaters in 2000. Directed by Don Paul and Eric Bergeron, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. You all probably remember watching this movie as a kid, I loved it and after writing this passage find myself wanting to watch it. That would bring back great childhood memories. This movie shined a lot of light to the myth of the city of gold. Parents and children were memorized by the movie after its great reviews of  63%. The New York Times reviews this movie by saying,"
Beavis and Butt-head and Wayne and Garth and the crew from ''South Park'' have so thoroughly coarsened the comic buddy movie that it comes as a slight shock when ''The Road to El Dorado'' hurtles us back six decades to the mild-mannered zaniness of the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope ''road'' movies.
Although those comedies, with their oblique inside references to sex, drugs and other not so simple pleasures, weren't as innocent as they appeared at the time, only those sophisticates with ears sharpened to the wisecracks' finer nuances could discern a subversive undertow. Most people were content to sit back and bask in those goofy mock travelogues seasoned with topical jokes and sight gags.''The Road to El Dorado,'' the new animated comedy from DreamWorks, borrows its title, its wanderlust and its jokey buddy-buddy tone from those Crosby-Hope treks into silliness, but its dialogue is so innocuous that there's no subtext to speak of. And where the Crosby-Hope romps into exotic climes flaunted a benighted Yanks-among-savages attitude toward non-North Americans, ''The Road to El Dorado'' bends over backward not to offend. This is a movie that wouldn't hurt a fly.
In its nicey-nice way, it is so eager simply to entertain that unlike other mainstream animated films, this one has no moral lesson up its sleeve. Well, yes, maybe one: human sacrifice is evil. Stretching things a bit, it also suggests that friendship might matter more than wealth and that con men can also be noble"

Eldorado Isn't in the yellow pages

Eldorado Isn't in the yellow pages
Emily Gill
Cites:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/international/americas/13cuzco.html?ex=1399780800&en=cc7a460b720009af&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND and
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/arts/television-radio-a-conquest-whose-daring-matched-its-cruelty.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

 This topic is not easy to reach about, most the sites are all in Spanish and I'm not planning on learning the language anytime soon. There are also so many legends about this mysterious place that its hard to find one that makes and sense. The articles I read from were newyorktimes.com, Alan Rider published in 2001 and PBS which was published in 2000 and will give you a lot more information about the brothers. Not the easiest read in the world but very insightful.
 This handsome looking devil to the right is Pizarro Gonzalo a well known explorer of Eldorado. Well him and his sidekick brother named Fransisco De Orellana. They sailed the Pacific Ocean in search for the city. They left a pretty bloody trail in search for it, no luck ever came to the brothers. Pizarro and Fransisco are most famous for being the fist to travel down the entire Amazon river in 1540. The article states that " the bothers went way over 700 miles down the river, desperate and hungry". They had almost 200 Spaniards and 4,000 Indians starve to death over the search for the Cinnamon city, as they liked to call it. A book was even published in 2004 called "The river of darkness" dedicated to them and their travels, which you can find on Amazon.com. Only 80 men came back live. Pizarro actually left Fransisco and 50 on the side of Coco river in search of food, the current was to strong to travel. This is where Fransisco died from starvation, him and all his men. Before his death, he had sent 4 men to send a message to Pizarro but the message was never sent. The 4 men had disappeared on the travel back, that was his last hope in reassue. This story is very sad and depressing, that didn't stop Pizarro to try to make another trip down the river. The preparation took years to get right, he wanted the perfect boat and the perfect men. Not long into the second travel men started to die off, including Pizarro. What can you expect from a boat made in 1500's, I mean it was probably made just out of wood. These men where well known for the risk they were willing to take in the hope of finding the city, they location from this point is still a mystery. This article helped me a lot to understand the length people were willing to take over the city of gold.What do you think about the brothers, were the grand conquistadors or just idiots with a passion for riches?

The myth

 Cites:http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/naipaul-way.html

The myth
I found some great discussions about El Dorado, if you want more information the web links are up ahead, one was posted by newyorktimes on May 22,1994 by Brent Staples. I would look at the Geographicus.com one that one is really detailed. This topic reminds me of my dad, he almost became obsessed with this city, and got me interesting in keeping up with the news about it. The article I read was difficult so I put all of it in my own words so its easy to follow."East of the Eastern Ocean lie The shores of the Land of Fusang.If, after landing there, you travel East for 10,000 li You will come to another ocean, blue,Vast, huge, boundless", this was a poem written by a man in the 1500's who went missing in the tangled Jungle in search for the city of gold. All that was found was this poem, in his notebook.There are many myths about the lost city of gold, Where it is? what went on there? and how did it disappear? I want to focus on all of that, I promise it wont be a boring blog. The most popular name this city has been given is Eldorado but it also goes by the white city. Many people believe in this hidden city somewhere in South America, full of wealth,riches and a unimaginable amount of gold. The tempting lure of this uncountable gold sent many explores of into the lush rain Forrest, where many never came back. In the 16th century the Europeans heard about the golden city from the locals. In this time it was very common for Spanish and English men to seek out the city in hope of unlimited amount of riches. The original legend came from the people in modern day Columbia known as Chibcha. It began here because a ceremony was held here, by which the Chibcha people would cover there chief in gold dust and swim a lake filled with gold flakes. Then at the end of the 1400s these people were defeated by the Spanish and there practices ended but the stories lived on. The Spanish believed that some of the Chibcha people escaped and hide in a forbidden land of gold. The Spanish desperately searched for this city, and after five long expeditions came up with nothing.In 1540, the Governor of northern Ecuador heard of this hidden city he sent 340 soldiers and over 4,00 Indians out into the vast forest. Sadly all soldiers and Indians died from starvation, disease, and attacks from natives in the jungles. An Explorer named Juan Martinez, who went in the deepest parts of the jungle, were their gun power exploded. Juan's men blamed him and left, later Juan claims that alone in the Forrest and group of Indians blindfolded him and brought him the the lost city of gold. His story goes that the natives gave him golden gifts but on the way back were stolen from him. However, the Spanish never found the city they did find a lake named Guatavita, when they drained the lake they found thousands of pieces of gold at the bottom.The Incas made the legend live on by creating golden temples and even gardens of pure gold, they were taken over by Spanish conquerors. So the question is what happened to the city and its people? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.