Lost Inca city "El Dorado" discovered in Peruvian Amazon!

Northern Light ^ | Story Filed: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:02 PM EST | By David Blanco Bonilla. http://www.efe.es

[VOA]

Looks like the members of the Electric Light Orchestra might be due some better
royalty checks if some of their music gets used for the inevitable specials on this
find on PBS, History, or other channels(they put out an album titled "El Dorado").

[Political Junkie Too]

An international team of explorers claims to have found the legendary Inca city of gold...

Bill Clinton said: "I wanted to find it, but the Republicans wouldn't let me."

According to legend, the treasures of the last Inca rulers were buried under the lake.

If they find it, let the games begin.

First, salvage claims by the explorers. Then antiquities claims by Peru. Then reparations claims by all the surrounding countries from which the slaves came.

-PJ

[carenot]

"All this only shows that the dream of finding a lost city of gold is as strong for us today as it was for the Spaniards in the 17th century, " he said.

I never tried it, but I bet gold doesn't taste as good as hogs, cows, sheep or goats.

What was the fixiation, (is that a word?) with gold back then?

I thought wealth was how many cattle and tents you had. Maybe how many fields you had.

When did gold happen?

[carenot]

Yes. And the streets are paved with tobacco drippings and hog doo-doo. parsy.

Hey parsy, I always love your posts.

I live in Texas and I am thinkin', I would much rather walk in doo-doo in the heat than on a street of gold.

We do have a river here to wash it off.

[Dog Gone]

How did a lake end up on top of it?

[dennisw]

If this is really the city sought for, a vast amount of gold and silver bullion will be found.
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More likely the gold and silver would be in the form of jewelry and ornaments...finished products so to speak. Lots of riches for the king and the nobility.

[carenot]

How did a lake end up on top of it?

The Democrats did it?

[per loin]

Solid proof that South America is not overcrowded.

[teeman8r]

something to do with sucker fish and water rights...

[Dog Gone]

Solid proof that South America is not overcrowded.

One could argue that if it's necessary to build your cities underwater, it's way too crowded.

[sawsalimb]

Bump for a very cool post!

[Ole Okie]

Hope, AR?

Absolutely correct.

What other state has a field which, when plowed daily, occasionally yields a fairly low quality diamond?

Only Arkansaw.

[lizma]

In Medievil times gold leaf was use on food and they thought it had some medicinal value. (Hard pressed it would taste better than a good BBQ sauce but when tomatoes first came to Europe, the acid in tomatoes would leach out the lead in the plates and pottery. Not a good era for anything tomatoe based.)

I've read that gold first became popular around 6000 B.C. A little later in this History of Gold.

Bottom line "keeping up with the Jones" probably started about 30,000 years ago. Till this day, anything rare and shiny enthalls us, especially if you are a human of the XX variety. Remember diamonds are a girl's best friend!

[Edmund Burke]

Do you think this is why the price of gold dropped so abruptly a few days ago?

[watcher1]

Cool. Very exciting. If it's true

[HAL9000]

Considering the historical significance of finding one of the ancient cities of Western Civilization, I think this is an appropriate article for Front Page News.

But I have a question -

I posted this same article yesterday as a news article, but it got moved to the "Moose and Cheese" forum. Why was it reclassified?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

No URL perhaps?

[Admin Moderator]

I don't know why that was moved, but it has been moved back to News.

[Wondervixen]

Wanna have some fun with the enviro-wackos?

Re-print the title of this and add "Logging & drilling begins in two weeks"

[Wondervixen]

Yes, and it is the finest album they ever did (among many great ones)...Get it & check out "Illusions In G Major" and "Mister Kingdom" just for two...Awesome!