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Tonight, a lost city deep in the Amazon jungle, and the man who vanished trying

to find it.

In the 1920s, Percy Fawcett was one of the most famous explorers in the world.

He became obsessed with this place he named the City of Z.

He writes a letter from his camp in the jungle, and that's the last we hear from

him.

Millions around the world await the news of Fawcett's fate, inspiring numerous

missions to find him.

At this point, he begins to suspect that not only did they murder Fawcett and

his men, but they're the next ones in line to be killed.

If you die in the jungle, in a few days, your body can completely disappear.

Now, we'll explore the top theories surrounding Fawcett's disappearance and

location of his legendary lost city.

Everyone knew when he was coming and vaguely where he was going, so it

have been very hard to follow him.

Because the jungle is so thick, he might have reached Z and walked right by it.

They've only uncovered maybe 10 % of this massive civilization.

This could be exactly what Fawcett was seeking.

What happened to Percy Fawcett? And where is the lost city of Z?

Around 1500, Portuguese explorers begin arriving on the coast of a place they

name Veracruz, which means true cross.

Today, we know it as Brazil.

At the time, they think it's an island. They don't know yet that it's part of

this giant continent.

And what they find there is this massive, massive river emptying into the

Atlantic Ocean.

They name the river and the rainforest that surrounds it the Amazon.

And this is the largest rainforest in the entire world. It's over 2 .3 million

square miles. That's over half of the United States.

It's still a mostly unexplored frontier because it's incredibly dense.

The canopy makes the forest floor very dark, so it's not like you can grow a

of food there.

There are several diseases.

It's full of dangerous wild animals like jaguars and anacondas. So it's not easy

to survive there at all.

Over the next couple hundred years, as people are exploring deeper and deeper

into the Amazon, well, they're constantly questioning the local

people, and they're hearing stories and rumors and myths of these...

ancient lost cities of gold that are just beyond the horizon or just beyond

mountain. And these stories are spreading all across Western Europe at

So by the 19th century, printing presses have been built on the backs of these

stories of European explorers going off into the Amazon in search of ancient

lost cities of gold and untold riches.

One man long intrigued by these tales is British explorer Percy Fawcett.

Percy Fawcett attended the Royal Geographical Society to learn to be a

cartographer and make maps, and he also served as an artillery officer in the

British Army. Those skills combined, his military experience, his cartography

skills, get him sent to the newest frontier, to the borders of Brazil, to

mapping this dense, unknown area.

He leaves the British Army and basically becomes a professional explorer.

And by 1911, his exploits become very popular for the newspapers back in

England. Stories like killing poisonous snakes or dealing with extremely hostile

tribes.

So during his time in the Amazon, Fawcett begins...

to really cultivate this obsession.

He's hearing stories about these lost cities, lost civilizations, and he

in on one that he writes about using just the letter Z.

He even travels to Brazil's capital city to learn more.

And while researching at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, Fawcett

uncovers a mysterious 10 -page document now known... as Manuscript 512.

And this 10 -page document written by a Portuguese explorer back in the 1750s

describes this lost city as sitting directly inside three archways and

up into a plaza that had language written on the wall in what looked like

ancient Greek.

For Percy Fawcett, this is the confirmation that he needs.

The stories that he's heard from the indigenous tribe are now matching up

manuscript in a library.

And he knows it's now his time to find the lost city of Z.

Based on the descriptions in Manuscript 512, Fawcett decides to focus his search

on the area between two rivers.

the Tapajos, and the Xingu River. There were previous explorers that had tried

to penetrate the area, including Theodore Roosevelt, but no Westerner had

fully penetrated the thick jungle in that area before.

So Fawcett decides that this is where the lost city of Z has to be located,

he decides he's going to be the one to explore it.

So in 1920,

Fawcett mounts an expedition, and it is a total disaster.

Everything goes wrong.

He gets sick. The ox dies. He has to shoot his own horse.

He basically ends up going home with his tail tucked between his legs.

And, of course, after that, no one's really interested in funding a follow

So this is where Fawcett...

Self -promotion really serves him well. He gets funding from a group of

publishers who he promises an ongoing story of his adventures, where along

the way as he travels, runners are going to be carrying regular updates to the

media.

launches on April 20th, 1925.

He's joined by his 21 -year -old son, Jack, Jack's friend, Raleigh Rimmel, two

Brazilian laborers, and a team of pack animals.

Everyone seems to be in good spirits.

For the last month, he and his party have been hacking their way through the

forest, and on May 29th, 1925, he's at a camp called Dead Horse Camp, which is

unfortunately where he had to shoot his horse on his last expedition.

And he writes to his wife telling her that he's now going to be leaving behind

his local indigenous guys as well as their pack mules and going totally on

because he wants to be able to move quickly, stealthily into unknown,

territory of the Mato Grosso, one of the most formidable regions of the Amazon.

And the word Mato Grosso means thick forest. It's extremely treacherous

territory just to navigate, let alone the wide plethora of dangers that await

you in the Amazon.

Going into the jungle, Percy knows he's on his own, and there's going to be no

way to get any information out or, frankly, no way to ask for help.

So he warns his wife in advance. He tells her, it might be a year before you

hear from me.

This is the last communication ever received from Percy Fawcett.

By the spring of 1927,

Fawcett has been gone for two years and the newspapers haven't heard any more

from him. There's absolutely no word. At this point, Fawcett's wife, Nina, and

his younger son, Brian, believe that Fawcett is still alive in the rainforest

somewhere. And this is one of the reasons why they support sending

after him.

But that's complicated by a number of things. One, The same thing it's

complicated by for Fawcett, the density and harshness of the jungle environment.

But it's complicated by another thing, too, and that's that Fawcett tried to

keep secret the exact location of where he was headed.

He could have been doing that for safety, not wanting other people to

his footsteps or to come looking for him and risk their own lives.

But he was probably also doing it for...

the sake of keeping the secret for himself.

He didn't want anyone else following his path and getting there first.

So by 1928, countless expeditions are being launched, and people are even

funding their own trips to go try to find some remnants of Percy Fawcett left

the jungles of the Mato Grosso region.

But Fawcett's worries about people trying to follow him were totally

And estimates range that even as many as 100 explorers looking for Percy Fawcett

never returned from the Mato Grosso region.

To date, no one has found him or hard evidence of his death.

There's now a century's worth of speculation on what became of Percy

The region that Fawcett was exploring is beset with dangers.

It's easy to get lost, to become disoriented, to lose one's sense of

to fall prey to one of the many dangers of the Amazon.

You would think that a jungle would have plenty of food and plenty of water.

But in fact, there are so many competing species that live in a jungle, finding

food is actually difficult.

You think, oh, it's the most diverse of species.

but you don't see a single thing. You only hear these things because it's like

walking into a closet. It's black.

They all see you, and they're all hunting you, but you're just blind in

jungle.

On one of Percy Fawcett's previous expeditions, he himself, as well as the

of the crew, almost starved to death.

There's even a point where he seizes the gun from his men to prevent them from

cannibalizing each other.

And in the Amazon, exhaustion, starvation, dehydration, those are not

things that could kill you. There are a lot of other things as well. There's

insects. There's tiny little bees that are called eye lickers that can work

their way into your tear duct.

There's a small species of eel fish that's known to swim up people's

and inhabit their bodies.

There are venomous spiders that can kill a human being with a single bite.

There are anacondas that can easily kill a human. In fact, Fawcett had shot an

anaconda that had attacked him during a previous trip into the Amazon.

So this is not a safe place.

If something dies in the desert, you can find that skeleton for hundreds of

years. Whereas in the jungle, it is so rich with...

everything trying to live and turn the next thing into fertilizer, if you die

there, in a few days, your body can completely disappear.

But by 1925, Percy Fawcett has faced these dangers numerous times and

survived.

So in many people's mind...

If there is anyone that could still be surviving somewhere deeper than the

Amazon, it was Percy Fawcett. He was notorious for escaping the most perilous

situations and somehow making it out on the other side.

He's experienced starvation. He's walked for days without food. He fought off a

giant anaconda and lived to tell the story.

So if the jungle didn't kill him, it's possible that something else did.

In the spring of 1927, two years after explorer Percy Fawcett sent his last

message from the remote Amazon, he's officially declared missing.

At this point, Fawcett and his team have been missing so long, most people think

they're dead.

So George Dyock is an acquaintance of Fawcett. He's a wealthy businessman, and

he decides.

that he's going to mount an expedition to do exactly what Percy Fawcett didn't

want anyone to do, which is follow in his footsteps and find him.

George Guyot is considered an extreme daredevil. He was a test pilot shortly

after the Wright brothers. He was one of the first people to fly at night. He'd

gone to the Amazon before, got captured by locals, and barely escaped.

So he's pretty experienced in this realm.

George Dyett advertises in newspapers looking for a partner for his expedition

to find or to at least solve the mystery of Percy Fawcett's disappearance.

Some 20 ,000 individuals from all over the world respond.

He puts together a team of 26 people, including indigenous guides, and also

brings with him a film crew because he wants to document this whole thing for

posterity. He has three tons of gear and supplies to help his team survive.

By June 1928, George Dyett reaches the region of Mato Grosu, that area

where Percy Fawcett sent his last letter to his family from.

And he has a huge stroke of luck.

Because he makes camp in a native settlement where he meets this guy

who claims that he was the guide for Percy Fawcett back in 1925.

Bernardino leads Dyat and some of the others to this place where he had guided

Fawcett down on Fawcett's previous expedition.

And he shows them these trees that have these markings of lies in their bark.

And Dyat...

posits that Fawcett had made these marks so that he would be able to find his

way back out after he discovered the lost city of Z.

One of the things that makes Dyot's team a little bit different from Fawcett's

team before is that they're using radio to relay messages back to the home base.

Amateur radio operators are picking up Dyot's messages and relaying them back

the rest of the world.

Shortly after arriving in Mato Grosso, Dayot's expedition takes a dark turn.

Despite all the people and supplies that Dayot brings with him, he left out one

really key necessity, a translator.

This becomes really problematic. When they run into a local tribe, the

they have only basic pantomime.

to understand what they're trying to say about the final fate of Percy Fawcett.

He thinks that the Nahuatl are telling him that Fawcett and his men were

murdered by another indigenous group known as the Soyos, because the Nahuatl

keep saying, Soyos, Soyos, and then falling over as though dead.

Diet is aware of how dangerous it can be to survive in the jungle. Dozens of

tribes live in the region, and it's known that they have terrible, gruesome

fights between different tribes or with the outsiders.

And there is a story, for example, about this one tribe that attacked a village,

killed almost everybody in it, and then they spent three days dancing and making

music among the rotten corpses.

But Dyat starts to wonder if this is a deliberate misdirect.

As Dyat is negotiating with the Nahuatl, in one of the huts, he sees a small

girl who's wearing what looks like a necklace, and it's actually a nameplate

that says W .S. Silver Company.

Dyat knows that Fawcett had purchased a lot of his gear from that company.

So he's thinking, Fawcett's been here.

This girl has this nameplate.

How did it get there?

At this point, Dayot begins to suspect that not only did the Nahuatl murder

Fawcett and his men, but that he and his men are the next ones in line to be

killed. Many of his men are sick and starving.

They have been infected by diseases like malaria and yellow fever. Things are

not going well for him at all.

At this point, Dayot and his team are pretty dispirited.

And then one night at camp, rumors start to go around that the chief of the

Nahuatl is planning to kill them all, like they killed Fawcett.

The next morning, the Nahuatl men are nowhere to be found.

Until suddenly, the entire party is surrounded, not just by the Nahuatl, but

lots of different tribes, all pointing weapons at them.

Dyat decides that his only choice here is to pacify the Nuhukwa with as many

gifts as they still have. After a little while, the conversation is completely

breaking down, and they start to decide it might be time for us to figure out a

way out of here.

Dyat decides, my best chance is to promise more gifts in the morning.

So at night, they decide to escape. They sneak out from the camp very, very

quietly. They go to their boats and they drift off, making no sound,

going away with the current.

The indigenous people chase after them, but they manage to escape.

Remarkably, after six months of originally landing in Brazil, George

surfaces from the jungle with an amazing story to tell. He hasn't found Percy

Fawcett. But he's found some evidence that Fawcett was with the Nahuatl, and

says that the Nahuatl killed Fawcett.

People find that pretty plausible, but it's also clear that Diot really likes

the attention.

He stars in a B -movie about his own expedition into the Amazon.

And there's others who think that...

Fawcett wouldn't have been quite so socially inept. He'd had interactions

the indigenous people of the Amazon before, and none of them had gone that

south.

Many people don't believe the story that Fawcett was murdered by indigenous

people because they had confidence in his diplomatic skills.

He had always had a very fine ability to make peace with the people that he came

into contact with, and they find it hard to believe that his diplomatic skills

would fail him.

That means that it's possible that something else was responsible for his

demise.

Some experts believe Percy Fawcett's 1925 quest for the lost city of Z ended

with his murder by an indigenous tribe.

But these weren't the only dangerous people lurking in the Amazon rainforest.

In 1924, just before Fawcett arrived, There was an attempted military coup

in Brazil, which was put down. The rebels dispersed throughout the country,

large number of them settling in the Cuiabá region in the Mato Grosso, right

about the time that Percy Fawcett arrived.

These rebels were armed. They were dangerous. They were known to attack any

foreigners who were in the region. They not only would rob them, but they

sometimes just murdered them.

These Brazilian rebels, they knew who Percy Fawcett was. He was a celebrity in

these areas. Everyone knew when he was coming and vaguely where he was going.

it wouldn't have been very hard to follow him. All you have to do is wait

his local Brazilian guides return and send Percy off down the jungle and then

follow the trail that they had cut. And thus you have Percy Fawcett, his son,

and his son's friends sitting in the jungle by themselves waiting to be

ambushed. There is little hard evidence to prove this theory until a surprising

discovery over 50 years after Percy Fawcett's disappearance.

In 1979, this British biologist is in the Amazon making a wildlife film, and

hears about this interesting ring at a local pawn shop in Cuitahua. When he

to check it out, the owner is long since dead, but his wife is still there, and

she hands him a ring.

with a motto written on it in Latin. And the translation is, Difficulties be

damned. The Fawcett family motto.

Fawcett's family confirms without doubt that that was the very ring that Percy

Fawcett took on the expedition.

It's possible that he was murdered and that ring was sold at the pawn shop.

also possible that Fawcett used this ring as a gift to get either food or

guidance or something.

to help him along the way. So the existence of this signet ring in the

doesn't necessarily mean that Fawcett was killed, or it doesn't even mean the

end of the story.

In the early 2000s, some old evidence is uncovered that suggests a different

fate.

TV writer and director Misha Williams reaches out to Fawcett's family, and in

return, he gets an entire trunk of materials of Fawcett's not previously

released to the public.

And what he finds is a lot of material gathered by Fawcett's son, Brian, the

who didn't go with him, who basically spent his entire life, until he died in

the 1980s, researching his own father.

According to his son, Brian, Percy Fawcett isn't just looking for the lost

of Z just to say he found it. He thinks if he can find this city, he'll be able

to find lost science and possibly unheard of technology to set up his own

civilization in the middle of the Amazonian jungle.

According to Brian Fawcett, his father, Percy, thought that the lost city of Z

could have been a refuge for people escaping the lost

city of Atlantis.

He believed that Atlantis may have been located in the Atlantic Ocean, and then

when it famously was lost under the water, people leaving that place sought

refuge in the Amazon forest and established that civilized utopian

in the lost city of Z.

And as far -fetched as a lost Atlantean continent somewhere off the coast of

South America may seem, in 2013, the Brazilian Geology Service actually

a huge sunken landmass continent off the coast of South America.

Fawcett's goal might have been to create a utopian society with the

technological advances from the lost city of Atlantis.

And I have to say, there's something intriguing to me about that theory.

After Fawcett experienced World War I, he was incredibly disillusioned with

humanity was capable of.

He spent so much time in the Amazon seeing tribal peoples live in

a kind of harmony with the natural world.

It would not surprise me completely if he wanted to escape.

into the jungle and live out the rest of his days in this kind of resurrection

of the lost city of Atlantis.

The question still remains, did Fawcett ever find what he was looking for?

And if he did, or if he created his own enlightened civilization in the middle

of the forest, why hasn't anyone else found it yet?

It seems clear to some researchers that if we want to answer these questions

about Percy Fawcett, what we need to do is find the lost city of Z itself.

Whether explorer Percy Fawcett was killed, succumbed to the elements, or

chose to stay in the Amazon jungle, one thing's clear, he never came back.

It's one of the great puzzles in the history of archaeology.

Since the 1920s, there have been countless attempts to figure out exactly

happened to him.

Some believe that the best way to try and find him is to try and find the

he was supposedly looking for, the lost city of Z.

It's hard to say that there could ever be a silver lining to the fact that the

rainforest is regularly and consistently shrinking.

But since the 1920s, it's gotten a lot easier to search around that region

because of that very fact. The rainforest is getting smaller.

The last few decades have been really compelling in terms of what we are

uncovering in the Amazon rainforest.

Significantly, a researcher from the University of Florida named Michael

Heckenberger published a book in 2005 called The Ecology of Power that...

chronicles his research and some of his expeditions in the region very near

where Percy Fawcett was looking.

Heckenberger makes a jaw -dropping discovery.

The Shingu River traveled all the way through the Amazon, but at the headwater

of it, Heckenberger found evidence of over 20 cities.

an entire population that had been overgrown by the jungle.

These villages are pre -Columbian, dating back possibly as far as 800 CE.

However, we don't know the ancient indigenous name of this site. The only

that we have for it is an adoption of a local Brazilian site called Cui Cugu.

This site lines up almost perfectly with Fawcett's idea of what his lost city of

Z would have looked like.

Massive monumental architecture, wide open plazas, as well as geometrically

aligned monuments and highways that extend off in the jungle that connect to

other settlements, as well as aqueducts running underneath the city, as far

exceeding anything that existed in Europe at the same time.

Researchers estimate that they've only uncovered maybe 10 % of this massive

civilization, which means there's even more yet to be found.

This could be exactly what Fawcett was seeking.

Kuhikugu is similar to some of the things that Percy Fawcett believed about

lost city of Z. There is the broad road.

There are bridges and moats and sophisticated architectural features. It

or less in the area where Fawcett thought that the lost city of Z might be

located.

But if these ruins match Fawcett's description of Z, and they're located

he was looking, why didn't he find them?

It took Michael Heckenberger 13 years of living right next to these

archaeological sites before he even discovered them, due to the fact that

have been covered up by centuries upon centuries of jungle growth.

Even if Percy Fawcett did discover the site of Coo -ee -Coo -goo, his

could have been thwarted by the extremely fierce and dangerous tribes

in that area even today.

It's entirely possible that Percy Fawcett could have walked right by Coo

-Coo -goo and never seen it. The jungle could have completely obscured any clue

that he could have found to the existence of this civilization.

Explorers continue to find this out the hard way as recently as 1996.

In 1996, the explorer James Lynch leads a party looking for Fawcett into the

Amazon rainforest, accompanied, among other people, by his 16 -year -old son.

They run into some indigenous people who are very upset about seeing them there.

Lynch and his crew were kidnapped and held hostage for three days, and they

threatened with a horrible and painful death. They say, if you don't give us

everything we want, we will tie you over the river and dip you into the water

while piranhas chew away your flesh.

Alternatively, we will slather you completely from head to toe with honey

lay you on the ground and let the bees sting you to death.

They only escape.

Because he basically hands over all of his belongings, all his equipment and

boats, and that's when they finally let him leave.

So it's clear that Fawcett might even have found this city and still

wasn't able to explore it.

Excavation is ongoing at Cui Cugu, and it's going to take a lot more work to

really uncover the full extent.

of what there is to be found there. New sites are being discovered in the Amazon

regularly, and they're not just in Brazil.

Percy Fawcett's 1925 expedition and subsequent missions to find him all

focused on the Brazilian Amazon.

But the entire rainforest covers 5 .5 million square miles and eight

to look for the city of Z far beyond Brazil.

One of the ongoing obstacles to exploration of the Amazon rainforest is

density. It's hard to move through, and it's also hard to see through.

Even when we can fly planes over it and take pictures, the canopy is so dense

that light doesn't even make it through. So pictures certainly aren't going to

help. Over the last few decades, new technology has been able to use LIDAR,

light detection and ranging, to actually see through the canopy to what lies

below.

So LIDAR technology has really revolutionized archaeology because it

archaeologists to get a picture of what is under the dense rainforest in a way

that you couldn't if you went in with machetes and hacked your way through.

Basically, they fly over an area in a plane. They shoot these infrared lasers

down onto the ground in a grid format. And then that grid reveals things that

exist underneath the rainforest canopy.

LiDAR technology tells us when there are things on the ground that merit

archaeological attention.

Scientists quickly latched on to this technology because it allows them to map

large areas in these archaeological sites. And in the Amazon jungle, it's

extremely important because they can not only map them, but it gives them a

perfect three -dimensional model, if you will, to see what lies below the jungle

with the vegetation removed.

And it allows them to zoom in and actually see very fine detail.

In 2018, a team of German researchers use LiDAR in northern Bolivia and

a massive urban settlement in a region known as Llanos de Morros.

The digital images reveal this massive network of structures that they think

dates back anywhere from 500 to 1400 CE.

Compared to the sites in Brazil, This site in Bolivia might actually be a

match for Fawcett's lost city of D. If that's the case, then Fawcett was about

thousand miles off target.

Llanos de Mojos is one of the largest archaeological sites ever discovered in

the Amazon.

It is complete with colossal step pyramids, large wide -open plazas that

oriented to astronomical bodies in the sky and geometrically aligned to one

another with aqueducts used to funnel water from the local rivers into the

and large highway systems extending off into the Amazon likely to connect to

other cities that are in arguable size somewhere that we haven't even

yet. And the estimated population of Llanos de Mojos is over 1 million

To put that in perspective, the estimated population size of ancient

height was also 1 million people.

Llanos de Mojos might be a better fit than Cuihugu for something like the

lost... city of Z because it is massive. Remember, Cuicugo is a series of

interconnected settlements.

There's about 20 interconnected settlements.

But Llanos de Mojos is a huge city of a million people with monumental

architecture and pyramids. It's massive.

Attesting to sophisticated civilizations that existed in the New World long

before European contact.

Archaeological evidence does point towards the fact that the Amazon was

much more densely inhabited than anybody has previously thought over the last

500 years. And it's very likely that cities as big or bigger are still

to be rediscovered somewhere deep in the heart of the Amazon.

believe locating the actual lost city of Z could shed light on the explorer's

fate.

Others contend that finding it is highly unlikely.

This takes us back to Manuscript 512. This is the document that sets Fawcett

his journey, and it's been verified as coming from the 1700s, but we still

know who authored it or why.

We'll never know if the original document that sent Percy Fawcett in the

manuscript 512, was actually factual.

This could have been an earlier explorer using his imagination to help raise

money.

When explorers were making inroads into the Americas, they went to great lengths

to convince their funders to give them money. They promised them endless

of gold and other precious metals in order to entice them to support these

expeditions.

Percy Fawcett did this himself. When he needed funding, he sold his story of

adventure to the news.

That could be what's happening here. Manuscript 512 could basically be a

pitch, looking for someone to be willing to fund exploration.

So maybe Fawcett devoted his entire life to

something that wasn't even real.

Another issue is that there were many civilizations hidden in the jungle, as

know now.

So how do we know that this document was describing not one city, but many other

civilizations or cities that somebody encountered, and it was just a mixture

them?

We know that Hernán Cortés found Tenochitlán, the Aztec capital. We know

Francisco Pizarro found Cuzco.

A city that at one point housed potentially 10 million people.

The realities of places like this fuel the rumors of places like the Lost City

of Z.

Details from the Fawcett family papers have convinced some historians that the

Lost City of Z is more of an idea than an actual place.

Fawcett's youngest son, Brian, spends his whole life trying to figure out what

happened to his father and older brother. He goes through reams of

does lots of historical research, even travels to the Amazon to try to find out

the truth.

And at the end, he begins to suspect that the lost city of Z was more of a

spiritual or metaphysical quest than a quest for gold and ruins.

We know from his family's explanations that he was leaning heavily into

mysticism. He was using Ouija boards and psychic mediums as part of his journey

of discovery.

And it may be that his goal in the end wasn't to find the lost city of Z. His

goal may have been to found his own city.

Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z remains one of the biggest puzzles in

history of exploration.

Percy Fawcett feeds into our fantasies of what an explorer is like because of

his bravery and character.

I think whenever you have a mystery, whenever you have someone who disappears

and is never heard from again, whenever you don't have an answer, that creates

fodder for uncertainty. And out of uncertainty come legends and rumors and

attempts to solve the mystery. So I think that the Percy Fawcett story is

these that will always inspire more speculation, more stories.

All of these finds, Heckenbergers, these German research teams in northern

Bolivia, I think they're just the tip of what we're going to begin finding. And

it's really turning on its head the beliefs that people have held for a

long time that there were never large populations of people living in the

Amazonian basin.

That whole notion is being completely upended by these fines.

The suggestion to me is that time will reveal more cities, more lost cities,

very likely the lost city of Z.

Whatever Percy Fawcett was searching for, he didn't find it, at least as far

we know.

The city itself may be waiting for someone else to locate it.

And that means a new generation of explorers are likely to continue to

for Fawcett and the infamous lost city of Z.

I'm Lawrence Fishburne. Thank you for watching History's Greatest Mysteries.