article_snippet: He was just one of many men to search for the ruins after the aviator Charles Lindbergh reportedly claimed that He saw the expansive white remains of an ‘amazing ancient metropolis’ when He flew over the region in 1927.
article_snippet: In the Thirties, George Heye, multi-millionaire founder of New York’s Museum of the American Indian, paid for two expeditions to find he saw the expansive white remains of an ‘amazing ancient metropolis’ when he flew over the region in 1927 led by a pith-helmeted Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society named Capt R. Stuart Murray.
article_snippet: The University of Houston and National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping team produced this 3D digital topological map which when examined shows a man-made plaza ringed in red .
article_snippet: It was the stone ruins of a walled ‘great city .