article_snippet: Researchers believe the complex of plazas, mounds, a pyramid and dozens of artefacts belong to a civilization which was blooming thousands of years ago and then vanished without a trace.
article_snippet: Since then countless adventurers have scoured the jungle for the ancient civilization, rumored to have enjoyed treasures beyond the wildest dreams of many budding Indiana Jones'.
article_snippet: This block of stone could be a remnant of a temple built in the Lost City of Honduras thousands of years ago .
article_snippet: However, despite archaeologists' following attempts to detect man-made structures - whether they be from Ciudad Blanca, The White City of The Monkey God or elsewhere -  have been unsuccessful.
article_snippet: Traveling into uncharted territory last month, a National Geographic team found the mounds of white rubble in the shape of a monkey's skull that experts believe to be thousands of years old.
article_snippet: Many more evidently lie below ground, with possible burials. '
article_snippet: possible burials include stone ceremonial seats (called metates) and finely carved vessels decorated with snakes, zoomorphic figures, and vultures. '
article_snippet: The most striking object emerging from the ground is the head of what Fisher speculated might be 'a were-jaguar,' possibly depicting a shaman in a transformed, spirit state. '
article_snippet: Alternatively, the artifact might be related to ritualized ball games that were a feature of pre-Columbian life in Mesoamerica.'
article_snippet: the jungle canopy data, the analysts revealed what appears to be man-made elevation .
article_snippet: changes that are thought to show a forgotten city plaza dotted with .
article_snippet: pyramids reclaimed by jungle.
article_snippet: Investigation: the NCALM and University of Houston engineers produced this 3D digital topological map which when examined shows a man-made plaza ringed in red .
highlights_snippet: Found white rubble which Found believe to be remnants of temples built thousands of years ago .
  