Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor of the early 20th Century, to an indigenous city that he believed had existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. Based on early histories of South America and his own explorations of the Amazon River region, Fawcett theorized that a complex civilization once existed there, and that isolated ruins may have survived.[1]
History
Fawcett found a document known as
Manuscript 512 was written after explorations made in the sertão of the province of Bahia.[2][page needed] Fawcett intended to pursue finding this city as a secondary goal after "Z". He was preparing an expedition to find "Z" when World War I broke out and the British government suspended its support. Fawcett returned to Britain and served on the Western Front during the war. In 1920 Fawcett undertook a personal expedition to find the city but withdrew after suffering from fever and having to shoot his pack animal.[1] On a second expedition five years later, Fawcett, his son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell disappeared in the Mato Grosso jungle.
Researchers believe that Fawcett may have been influenced in his thinking by information obtained from indigenous people about the
In popular culture
In 2005, the American journalist
See also
References
- ^ ISSN 0028-792X.
- ^ Fawcett 1953.
- ISBN 978-0-385-51353-1.
- PMID 29588444.
- ^ "Lost city with pyramids found in impenetrable Amazon jungle". The Times. London, Eng. 25 May 2022.
- ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (August 19, 2015). "James Gray's 'The Lost City Of Z' Starts Shooting, Marvel's Spider-Man Tom Holland Joins The Cast". IndieWire. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
Sources
- OL 6134053M.
- Furneaux, Rupert (1961). The World's Strangest Mysteries: Happenings that Have Intrigued and Baffled Millions. Odhams Press.
- Thorpe, Vanessa (2004-03-21). "Veil lifts on jungle mystery of the colonel who vanished". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
- Warren, Smith (1976). Lost cities of the ancients—unearthed!. OCLC 3249761.
- "Books: Fawcett of the Mato Grosso". Time. Vol. XLI, no. 21. 25 May 1953.
Further reading
- Langer, Johnni (2002). "A Cidade Perdida da Bahia: mito e arqueologia no Brasil Império". Revista Brasileira de História (in Portuguese). 22 (43): 126–152. ISSN 1806-9347.
- ISBN 0-8101-6065-X.)
External links
- Manuscript 512, English translation., Fawcett Adventure website
- Secrets of the Dead - Lost in the Amazon. PBS video special on Fawcett's quest for the City of Z.
- David Grann (2010). "Under the Jungle". The New Yorker.