article_snippet: A team hunting for the legendary 'lost city' of Ciudad Blanca in Honduras has made a dramatic discovery of untouched ruins deep in the jungle that are thought to be thousands of years old, according to National Geographic.
article_snippet: a trace prompts the tantalizing possibility that they have found the lost civilization known as the White City, which as been the subject of local rumors among tribes people and Spanish explorers around the la Mosquita area of jungle in Honduras for hundreds of years.
article_snippet: Local tribes people also reportedly related the same story to an anthropologist, according to a Honduran media report.
article_snippet: Inspired by this legend, cinematographer and Ciudad Blanca enthusiast Steven Elkins sought backing from private investors to pay for A team hunting for the legendary 'lost city' of Ciudad Blanca in Honduras at NCLAM to use cinematographer and Ciudad Blanca enthusiast Steven Elkins laser mapping technology to chart the forest floor of Mosquitia.
article_snippet: We may never . be able to tell whether any of these are Ciudad Blanca, or whether the .
article_snippet: Ciudad Blanca has played a central role in Central American mythology.
article_snippet: If confirmed, the discovery of Ciudad Blanca would be comparable to the popularisation of forgotten sites such as Machu Picchu, which lay ruined for hundreds of years until reintroduced to western eyes in 1911 by American historian Hiram Bingham.
highlights_snippet: National Geographic team ventured into Honduras rainforest to look for the fabled 'White City' filled with gold .
  