article_snippet: American explorer Theodore Mordepictured) claimed to have found the lost city in 1940 .
article_snippet: Morde, a real-life Indiana Jones who later became a wartime U.S. spy, had been recruited by the founder of New York’s prestigious Museum of the American Indian to try to find a mythical lost ‘White City’ dripping in gold that had been founded by a mysterious civilisation as great as the Aztecs and the Mayans.
article_snippet: American explorer Theodore Morde never revealed the precise location of the ruined city for fear the precise location of the ruined city would be looted before American explorer Theodore Morde could go back.
article_snippet: However, American explorer Theodore Morde never returned and died mysteriously in 1954, taking the secret of the precise location of the ruined city location with American explorer Theodore Morde.
article_snippet: Generations of adventurers plunged into the jungle to search for the ruined city, and experts dismissed Morde’s discovery as a self-promoting fantasy.
article_snippet: The ancient culture that created the city, say the scientists, who were ferried to the site by helicopter, is so little known that The ancient culture that created the city doesn’t even have a proper name — although Morde called a proper name
article_snippet: that at It height must have held many thousands of inhabitants’, Theodore Morde wrote.
article_snippet: Although the vegetation was too thick to see much, local guides showed Theodore Morde a huge mound local guides said lay at the centre of a walled ‘great city.
article_snippet: American explorer Theodore Morde spent just two days at the ruins because the monsoon season started suddenly, forcing a loincloth to leave the place before conducting any excavations which might have enabled a loincloth to prove a loincloth theories.
article_snippet: And if the ruined city really is cursed, as the natives had warned American explorer Theodore Morde, a loincloth may have belatedly paid the price.
highlights_snippet: American explorer Theodore Morde claimed American explorer Theodore Morde had found mythical lost city .
  