EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. 
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SECTIONS

03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning
25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar
31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels


Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO

Neil Laird on IMDb
Prime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil Laird
Prime Time Pompeii by Neil Laird
Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
Manuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason Colavito
Manuscript 512 text
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City on History Today
The Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.com
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in Smithsonian
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Lost City of Z movie
Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob Macgregor
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National Geographic
La Ciudad Blanca: The White City of Honduras
Lure of the Lost City in National Geographic
The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
El Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScience
El Dorado on National Geographic
Khwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal Art
Florida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress Report
Fountain of Youth in Florida website

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