Percy Fawcett and his lost city

Percy Fawcett and his lost city

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PERCY Fawcett AND HIS LOST CITY
Ever since Europeans first arrived in the New World, there have been rumors of a city of gold in the forest, sometimes called El Dorado. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Orellana was the first to search for the legendary city along the Rio Negro.
In 1925, 58-year-old explorer Percy Fawcett entered the Brazilian jungle to find a mysterious lost city, called the Z. Fawtt team, and he himself disappeared without a trace. Rescue operations failed – Fawcett was not found

In 1906, the Royal Geographical Society of England sponsored scientific expeditions and invited Fawcett to study part of the Brazilian border with Bolivia. He spent 18 months in the state of Mato Grosso, and during his expeditions, Fawcett became fascinated with the region’s lost civilizations.

In 1920, in the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, Fawcett came across a document called Manuscript 512. It was written by a Portuguese explorer in 1753. According to him, in the Mato Grosso region of the Amazon rainforest, he found an ancient Greek walled city.

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he manuscript describes a lost city with high-rise buildings, high stone arches, wide streets leading to a lake, where the explorer saw two white Indians in a canoe.
In April 1925, Fawcett made one last attempt to find Z. This time, he prepared thoroughly and received more funding from newspapers and societies, including the Royal Geographical Society and the Rockefellers.

In his last letter sent home by a member of his team, Fawcett wrote to his wife, Nina: “We shall cover this territory in a few days… Do not fear failure.” This was his last message to his wife and the world.