A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A medical mystery. A journey into the unknown heart of the world’s densest jungle and a stunning archaeological discovery.
Since the days of conquistador Hern?n Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary city is cursed: to enter it is a death sentence. They call it the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artefacts and an electrifying story of having found the City ? but then committed suicide without revealing its location.