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January 2010 The Real El Dorado?Satellite technology detects
giant mounds over 155 miles, pointing to sophisticated pre-
Columbian culture. It is the legend that drew legions of
explorers and adventurers to their deaths: an ancient empire of
citadels and treasure hidden deep in the Amazon jungle. Spanish
conquistadores ventured into the rainforest seeking fortune,
followed over the centuries by others convinced they would find
a lost civilisation to rival the Aztecs and Incas. Some seekers
called it El Dorado, others the City of Z. But the jungle
swallowed them and nothing was found, prompting the rest of the
world to call it a myth. The Amazon was too inhospitable, said
20th century scholars, to permit large human settlements. Now,
however, the doomed dreamers have been proved right: there was a
great civilisation. New satellite imagery and fly-overs have
revealed more than 200 huge geometric earthworks carved in the
upper Amazon basin near Brazil'