“Ecuador’s two ‘lost cities of gold’ exist only in legend and in fragments of old texts like this one, written by a Spanish priest traveling through the region a half century after the settlements were destroyed.  Spain eventually gave them up for lost after dispatching more than 30 failed expeditionary forces to reclaim them. Barron and a team of researchers have spent years sleuthing around the Vatican library, the immense General Archive of the Indies, in Seville, Spain, and in small churches and libraries scattered throughout Latin America.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-20/he-struck-it-rich-in-ecuador-now-he-s-looking-for-the-lost-cities-of-gold

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