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Lost City Discovered In Honduran Rain Forest

Posted by Soulskill on from the hiding-spot-for-stranded-time-travellers dept.

jones_supa writes: An expedition to Honduras has emerged from the jungle with the discovery of a previously unknown culture's lost city. The team was led to the remote, uninhabited region by long-standing rumors that it was the site of a storied "White City," also referred to in legend as the "City of the Monkey God." Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished. The team also discovered a remarkable cache of stone sculptures that had lain untouched since the city was abandoned. The objects were documented but left unexcavated. To protect the site from looters, its location is not being revealed.

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  1. "White City" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    White City

    Nonsense, its clearly black and blue.

  2. Please... by readin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sick and tired of these overly dramatic headlines Slashdot keeps throwing at us. The city was never "lost". It was misplaced.

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    1. Re:Please... by Bovius · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Honey, do you know where we put the city?"

      "Pretty sure it's with the keys!"

      "It's not with the keys!"

      "Did you leave it in the desk drawer?"

      "No, it's not there, either! You didn't leave it out in the Honduran jungle again, did you?"

      "Try calling it!"

      "I can't call it, it's an ancient abandoned city!"

      Followed by half an hour of heated argument.

    2. Re:Please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only half an hour of argument? Newlyweds.

  3. i'm confused by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    is this the city that turns into a ufo?

    or the one with the giant rolling stone trap?

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  4. Re:How did they do it by kesuki · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I'm always amazed that they were able to build a civilization in such a thick jungle."

    have you ever heard of Wraith bioelectronics? how about Zerg bio-infestation? what about the orc former ally the undead serving nazul?

    a zero-point-module can sustain a sufficently large jungle if it gets one the above applied to it.

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  5. A rescue team by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished.

    Why is everyone so laid back about these archaeologists?

    We need to urgently send a rescue team.

  6. Lost city in Australia by Stele · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you draw a line from Honduras through the rumored location of Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and then through the Congo where the lost city of Zinj is, it points directly to northern Australia, so there has to be another lost city there. Get your machetes out Australians and start looking!