El Dorado: The Search For The Long Lost Ancient City Of Gold | Myth Hunters | Timeline

Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado, a fabulously rich and sophisticated kingdom that was once home to thousands of people living deep in the Amazon jungle. To most people it was just a legend. But for British explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, it was real. Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it.
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  • @scandalouslando204
    @scandalouslando20417 күн бұрын

    Thank you for not flooding this show with advertisements every 10 mins. Makes the show sooo much better. 😊❤

  • @jeffnichols7834
    @jeffnichols783420 күн бұрын

    I find it interesting that all the clues that told him to turn back or stop the exploration and yet he continued to do it. It's interesting how people willingly search for things but sometimes those things should not be found.

  • @jeffclark7888

    @jeffclark7888

    20 күн бұрын

    Because they don’t exist.

  • @autotek7930

    @autotek7930

    18 күн бұрын

    O0o0o0o0 it's a Jeff battle!

  • @jeffclark7888

    @jeffclark7888

    18 күн бұрын

    @@autotek7930 Haaa! True!

  • @benhurley8063

    @benhurley8063

    14 күн бұрын

    A battle to the jeff

  • @Bobcat753
    @Bobcat75320 күн бұрын

    This should be named the Life and times of Percy Fawcett, there is very little in it related to archeology.

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    True. But they didn't claim it does. They used the title of the original film maker. This channel just contracts with the copyright holder to be able to use the film.

  • @justinscott4503
    @justinscott450319 күн бұрын

    Great episode and amazing soundtrack. Nice work Mooch.

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid358720 күн бұрын

    Wonderful documentary about that lost ancient civilization (El Dorado)legend, sharing by an excellent ( Timeline) channel.

  • @TylertheViking93
    @TylertheViking9320 күн бұрын

    The lost city of Z was one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched. Told the story of the lost city so well, and the acting was phenomenal. 10/10 definitely recommend

  • @loraweems8712

    @loraweems8712

    20 күн бұрын

    Is it a movie, or a documentary? TYIA

  • @lukemurray4950

    @lukemurray4950

    20 күн бұрын

    There is a movie of this?

  • @TylertheViking93

    @TylertheViking93

    20 күн бұрын

    @@loraweems8712 it is technically a movie but the movie is about the documented life of Percy fawcett and his son hunting for the lost city of z.

  • @TylertheViking93

    @TylertheViking93

    20 күн бұрын

    It’s beautifully written and the cast/acting is top notch.

  • @tonicastel2390

    @tonicastel2390

    20 күн бұрын

    The book is excellent. The movie was also very good. Called “The Story of Z”.

  • @M3W3
    @M3W320 күн бұрын

    I am actually more impressed with the guide, it tools them so many days and hardship in exploration yet the guide can run up and down as if a breeze to deliver written news… the guide probably know the place even better than anyone else

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    Which is always the case, of course. They do deserve great credit though, most especially the mountain guides in dangerous terrain. And more than others, the Sherpas on Mount Everest. They frequently get injured and killed, so that rich tourists with inflated egos can see the top, and their families pay very dearly for it.

  • @juspete5527

    @juspete5527

    18 күн бұрын

    Wow way to point out obvious. The guide know more than others crazy

  • @cynthiaalver
    @cynthiaalver20 күн бұрын

    Great video! I was enthralled and sad when it was over. Thank you.

  • @maggieekane7845
    @maggieekane784520 күн бұрын

    Great documentary on past large civilizations of South America. We have been discovering more and more remarkable evidences of causeways, trading btwn areas, agricultural attempts. It won’t surprise me that we will find Amazon societies that excited centuries, even millennia ago! 👍🥰

  • @sharronarturi7958
    @sharronarturi795816 күн бұрын

    I liked the history, the story at the end 😮 I really enjoyed the videos of the Amazon‼️💥🌎

  • @oobrocks
    @oobrocks20 күн бұрын

    I highly recommend Aguirre, Wrath of God; incredible film ❤🎉

  • @pendragon2012
    @pendragon201220 күн бұрын

    I always enjoyed this series.

  • @missbusanbeth
    @missbusanbeth20 күн бұрын

    The hubris of thinking that our modern methods must be the best, and that our ancestors couldn't have innovated better than us

  • @uranusismightybig5111
    @uranusismightybig511118 күн бұрын

    5:59 what a face, those eyes.... extraordinary

  • @Tomdabomb86
    @Tomdabomb8618 күн бұрын

    Great work

  • @Acer_Maximinus
    @Acer_Maximinus15 күн бұрын

    It was a classic tactic of native tribes to tell explorers that what they’re looking for is in a far off direction. Just to lead them away.

  • @DutchFurnace
    @DutchFurnace19 күн бұрын

    The idea that Western explorers are responsible for the death of this civilization has always been weird to me, as they already reported a declining civilization with abandoned cities from the very beginning, and then I'm talking about the locals who gave this information to the explorers causing the desire for exploration by these explorers who'd be later be blamed for the death of the civilization they were exploring based on the "we're the last of a great civilization" information from the locals.

  • @johnhenryruminski8662
    @johnhenryruminski866210 күн бұрын

    North !!!! Love John !!!!

  • @mentalmetalist3856
    @mentalmetalist385619 күн бұрын

    The Amazon soil blows my mind. Someone figured it out and it can’t be replicated. We can pay a little more for steaks. Protect the jungle

  • @scottclark1839
    @scottclark183920 күн бұрын

    Poor Percy ..

  • @Davivd2

    @Davivd2

    20 күн бұрын

    He died chasing his dream. I don't have any sorrow about that. If we can accept that fact that we will all die, we can then realize that it's how we live that matters. He lived pursing shaping his own destiny, and met the same end that we all will. I don't feel sorry for him. I admire him. We should all be so lucky.

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    20 күн бұрын

    @@Davivd2I admire him too. Well said mate 👍🏻

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    Yes indeed! Very well said! To many people, a more sedentary life is not worth living.

  • @Acer_Maximinus

    @Acer_Maximinus

    15 күн бұрын

    @@Davivd2 “We should all be so lucky” If you consider being eaten by cannibals lucky.🤦‍♂️

  • @conrad7635
    @conrad763520 күн бұрын

    The quest of the golden colored corn. Eaten.

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    🤣😂🤣😂🤣

  • @rumbled5461
    @rumbled546120 күн бұрын

    Great documentary, i dont understand how they knew about what happened at the campsite, or what he wrote in his letters to his wife, if they were never found. how did this info get out. or did i miss something.

  • @chadlongnecker630

    @chadlongnecker630

    19 күн бұрын

    He had runners taking messages back to civilization periodically

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    I haven't watched it yet, but from watching a lifetime of these things, I imagine they used a lot of what is called "creative license".

  • @philomathist6899
    @philomathist68996 күн бұрын

    And no mention of the lidar study’s which basically discover a bunch of Amazon cities?

  • @brianbeville545
    @brianbeville54517 күн бұрын

    I've nvr seen eye linds that big my bad 😢

  • @Acer_Maximinus
    @Acer_Maximinus15 күн бұрын

    Most likely, Riley’s foot got too bad to travel. Percy left the two in order to seek help from hostile natives. He never made it back. And the 2 died, or were found and killed as well.

  • @KabertaKneeGr0wCxntman
    @KabertaKneeGr0wCxntman4 күн бұрын

    Colonel Percy Fawcett is a great man cuh!! a great man! you better respect cuh!!! or else

  • @klausjambor1897
    @klausjambor18978 күн бұрын

    Might be an invisible in the invisible like picture in the picture.

  • @golgumbazguide...4113
    @golgumbazguide...411320 күн бұрын

    Explore Golgumbaz Deccan india

  • @KabertaKneeGr0wCxntman
    @KabertaKneeGr0wCxntman4 күн бұрын

    i thought one of the conquistadors said he sailed up the amazon, seen a "city of gold", came back, told europe, they went back, and they couldnt find it. not even the city (because the people died from disease and the jungle swallowed up whatever visible city you could see from the river) and they called him a fraud. why was this not included. also who was this guy i cant google find him. help.

  • @BiltmoreGhost
    @BiltmoreGhost19 күн бұрын

    Keep in mind how many cities are overgrown with jungle vines and abandoned over the centuries.

  • @georgeosborn3223
    @georgeosborn322317 күн бұрын

    If he "knew the location", why did he spend years looking for it? 😂

  • @user-ew5ef9xd1s
    @user-ew5ef9xd1s17 күн бұрын

    Nah they had a chief that would cover himself in gold dust. They have also found gold trinkets in the river. It is still out there or someone found it and said nothing.

  • @johnlord8337
    @johnlord833720 күн бұрын

    More information and backstory here of Col. Percy Fawcett that hasn't been told for 80+ years of historical documentation and presentation

  • @philip2010
    @philip201019 күн бұрын

    One of the cities is saposedly in Utah in the canyons but it's never been found its called qui veira if I spelled that right

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    What does "saposedly" mean?

  • @Manoj_13
    @Manoj_1320 күн бұрын

    Rocky Bhai wants to know your location 💀

  • @JakuBrazyMusikLLC-mr6ds
    @JakuBrazyMusikLLC-mr6ds19 күн бұрын

    They found it.

  • @philipmcdonagh1094
    @philipmcdonagh109415 күн бұрын

    Think poor old Percy must of over indulged in the local flora, seeing a city of gold wouldn't be the only thing you'd see.

  • @MP-zw5vg
    @MP-zw5vg12 күн бұрын

    The genuine Indiana Jones.

  • @teemanx3578
    @teemanx357819 күн бұрын

    This video needs more ads.

  • @philip2010
    @philip201019 күн бұрын

    It was in the Indiana Jones movie the kingdom of the crystal skull😅

  • @juspete5527

    @juspete5527

    18 күн бұрын

    Supposedly there is 13 crystall skulls I think 5 or so have been found around the world. They have no idea how they were made

  • @tomdobbs2733
    @tomdobbs273320 күн бұрын

    I reckon it was a giant ant 🐜 that got him in the end

  • @brianbeville545
    @brianbeville54517 күн бұрын

    Wait what. He went alone & then just tured around & caught a boat too ? Wtf 😊😅

  • @PierreDuhamel-lj1vb
    @PierreDuhamel-lj1vb10 күн бұрын

    The Terra Pretta and the wisdom of the native people of Amazonian is worth all the gold in the world ...but modern man has no means of understanding such treasure.

  • @klausjambor1897
    @klausjambor18978 күн бұрын

    Its in a mountain ⛰️

  • @prathameshrana9964
    @prathameshrana996420 күн бұрын

    El Dorado = KGF

  • @Badgersj
    @Badgersj17 күн бұрын

    Terra Preta - it's called compost. Probably forbidden now because of biological/ecological/whateverological rules, but it's good stuff if you get it right.

  • @robertthompson5445

    @robertthompson5445

    9 күн бұрын

    No, no, it's magic black soil.

  • @THESUNOF
    @THESUNOF12 күн бұрын

    I found it I found it. I know where it's at. I found the place the secret I found it..

  • @mickeyhughes7918
    @mickeyhughes791815 күн бұрын

    It's not a city of gold. It is a place of gold. Not a city a place where the gold is found

  • @techisgod
    @techisgod15 күн бұрын

    I guess $5000 was a lot of money back then?

  • @herschelmayo2727
    @herschelmayo272715 күн бұрын

    The first mass extermination of natives correspomds with first contact with scandinavians and their diseases. Everywhere there is evidence of tribal migrations and abandonment around the same period

  • @wrsmith711
    @wrsmith71119 күн бұрын

    well, no one has found it yet.

  • @cattymajiv
    @cattymajiv19 күн бұрын

    This is generally well done, but like many of the videos on this channel, the music drives me nuts! It's much too dramatic and much too loud. So many documentaries are wrecked by this. The editors must have been on amphetamines or cocaine. The show is almost unwatchable due to the constant, overly dramatic, and LOUD music ! ! !

  • @allshour436
    @allshour43613 күн бұрын

    A mound of junk to sell at pawn shops

  • @israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948
    @israel_started_it_ALL_in_194820 күн бұрын

    Amazing

  • @oDIRECTORo

    @oDIRECTORo

    20 күн бұрын

    PALESTINE DOES NOT EXIST

  • @Keef_DGAF
    @Keef_DGAF9 күн бұрын

    I do not believe el dorado is real...however Atzlan did, and it was in bolivia...

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett569220 күн бұрын

    Lidar has proven that he was correct. A series of cities intertwined by highways connecting them and a capital city. This was home to an Ancient Civilization and as advanced as were the other areas in Central and South America. Advanced evidence found in the Terapratta, Terrace Gardens, vast plants that were planted by man rather than nature, the Forest was planted, Earthquake resistant building techniques, Megalithic Building, and more, the man was accurate and I suspect his journals would be filled with information far more accurate than the "Mainstream Academia" belief based "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline". Minds that exercise Freedom of Thoughts, that are Fully Open, free of predetermined Beliefs, Theories, Opinions, are the Authentic Academics who are truly enjoying the Explorations and making the Discoveries. I hope their experience was fulfilling and they made their transitions into Nonphysical with ease and peace. I also hope his wife and their families were able to find a secure comfort and harmony in time. His fortitude and inspired Explorations are truly a timeless worthiness example for others. ✨✨✨

  • @MacAdam-itsme
    @MacAdam-itsme16 күн бұрын

    reat gob & details

  • @skydivingcomrade1648
    @skydivingcomrade164811 күн бұрын

    Algorithm

  • @sterben4106
    @sterben4106Күн бұрын

    They were eaten.

  • @AzziiSparks
    @AzziiSparks9 күн бұрын

    It all started with George rr martin😂😂 My love for ancient history began!!❤

  • @user-dg2gj9nh6v
    @user-dg2gj9nh6v20 күн бұрын

    This sttory has been described and written on Greek mythology, then , more tthan sixty years ago, to be honest with you, I turn 74 years, Encyclopedia Americaner, Japanese Encyclopedia, botg of them is out of dated, they had pualished sixty years ago, sixty years has passed after that, novility has been discovered and the truth has been availed. If you want to discover the riddles, why don't you do it by yourself? Don't get involved someone else,something, they have been very bothered , annoyed by your cheap selfish, greedy ambition. He was just ridiculous, idiot, simpleton.just failure. Read Four Books and Five classics of Confusiasm for ethical vewpoint. At last, thanks for your great footage, very enlightened.

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    20 күн бұрын

    Keep taking the pills

  • @nottelling5415
    @nottelling541519 күн бұрын

    It's not in South America, it's in North America in the Grand Canyon.

  • @Jeffwaifei
    @Jeffwaifei8 күн бұрын

    HIS POOR WIFE

  • @williampatterson1376
    @williampatterson13765 күн бұрын

    Where is Percy Fawcett Lost camera that was found in the Amazon rainforest maybe where the Lost City of Z Gold site, their was Percy Fawcett camera has ancient civilizations pictures was put on the internet like last year or years ago

  • @AkshayKumar-vg2pi
    @AkshayKumar-vg2pi20 күн бұрын

    El Dorado is in Sri lanka , king ravanas golden lanka , its stated in ramayan

  • @Acer_Maximinus

    @Acer_Maximinus

    15 күн бұрын

    I love ramayan noodles.

  • @markedwards9247
    @markedwards924720 күн бұрын

    Couldn't watch much further than 3.30, after the 'conquest' of South America was described as romantic. And a bit further on, the indigenous tribes described as 'an area crawling with dangerous locals'. South America is on par with North America, and Australia, for the genocide and subjugation of the indigenous people, which should be viewed as one of the most shameful episodes in human history. But apparently the search for treasure makes it all OK.

  • @Hermann-lz2jb

    @Hermann-lz2jb

    20 күн бұрын

    Trump 2024

  • @cattymajiv

    @cattymajiv

    19 күн бұрын

    The OP has given us great food for thought here. It's not ok, but that's not what this guy was doing, not in any way.

  • @Therealgrinc

    @Therealgrinc

    17 күн бұрын

    He’s describing how the Explorer felt in that time period…

  • @emmetsweeney9236

    @emmetsweeney9236

    15 күн бұрын

    Calm down and get off your virtue-signalling horse.

  • @user-hz6vm7xh8m
    @user-hz6vm7xh8m18 күн бұрын

    "Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it." ~ Am I the only one who sees the glaring contradiction in this dumb sentence?

  • @brianbeville545
    @brianbeville54517 күн бұрын

    & this is not a movie dunmb dik. It's something u'll nvr doo😊

  • @toddbarber7590
    @toddbarber759016 күн бұрын

    If it existed, we wouldve found it by now

  • @HunterJacksonsLaptop
    @HunterJacksonsLaptop20 күн бұрын

    First comment!

  • @holly52ful
    @holly52ful17 күн бұрын

    The greatest treasure is?? That which is eternal!! Acts 2:38 shows how to enter that kingdom!! God’s providence my friends!!

  • @OsloNoWay
    @OsloNoWay9 күн бұрын

    Explorers, adventurers, thrillseekers, daredevils - always middle-aged and always men. I wonder why...

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