El Dorado’s cousin: the Lost City of Z

In 1925 the British explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Mato Grosso of Brazil hunting a lost stone city he called “Z” and was never seen again, along with his son and a friend, one of the great disappearances of the age. For decades it was assumed the Amazon could never have held cities. Then LIDAR and satellite work began revealing exactly that: enormous pre-Columbian earthwork settlements, roads and geoglyphs under the forest canopy. Fawcett was wrong about the details and right about the idea.