It's always cool to hear about new discoveries around the globe. It's pleasing that they still happen, after all these years of humanity. Just when you think that our technological, consumerist-capitalist-based world has nothing new left to discover, things like these come up. To think that there are things in our world that are still unseen, untouched, or even not yet created, is super-dooper exciting (And when you think about it, an obvious matter of fact)!
A fascinating find has come from the tragic loss of Brazilian rainforest, making some lemonade out of that lemon. Of course, what this discovery of a long lost Amazonian civilization means is that there have been other times when the forest was likewise not there, giving us hope that currently devastated areas can be regrown as well.
What this find also means is that those intrepid explorers of earlier times, such as Colonel P.H. Fawcett and many others, were correct in believing the natives, whose stories beginning centuries ago described not just one but many civilizations or cities lost in the massive rainforest as well as elsewhere in remote, overgrown parts of South America.
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There is no getting away from it, the Fawcett story is fascinating. It's sad in a way that if the expedition returned safely without ever finding the Lost City of Z, Fawcett may have been forgotten. However, with their disappearance they have in a way, been immortalized, capturing the imagination of many as to what happened to them.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Fawcett's Lost City of Z will one day be revealed.
In the meantime a new book called Amazon Adventure by Ben Hammott is due for release shortly. http://www.fawcettadventure.com (Fiction) The book actually continues Fawcett's journey into the jungle from Dead Horse Camp, Fawcett's last known possession, to reach the Lost City and to go inside. If handled well it should be a good read. I have read Hammott's previous book, Lost Tomb of the Knights Templar. It about solving clues in an old church to find some 2000 year old artefacts, chests of gold and a tomb with a mummified corpse. It was one of my best reads of 2009, so I have no doubt that Amazon Adventure will do the story justice. (http://www.benhammott.com)