He described a city "where a giant monkey deity was once worshipped and local tribes described myths of half-human, half-simian children." Their culture has hardly been studied, and doesn't even have a name.Äuring an expedition in 1940, the American adventurer Theodore Morde believed that he had discovered the site, but he died before he told anyone where it was. The city's civilisation thrived over a thousand years ago, but has since vanished. The team of researchers, accompanied by two former SAS soldiers and Honduran troops, discovered a "remarkable cache" of untouched structures, stone sculptures and artefacts which could shed light on the ancient civilisation.Ä®xplorers have been searching for "The White City" or the "City of the Monkey God" deep in the Mosquitia rainforest since the 16th century when Spanish conquistadores arrived in the Americas. A team of archaeologists hunting for an ancient city in the Honduran rainforest have discovered the "untouched ruins of a vanished culture", the National Geographic has revealed.
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