February 12, 2025

Lost Cities of the New World

46 minutes

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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