![]() ![]() Yet after a toll of suffering and death worthy of Joseph Conrad, most archeologists had concluded that El Dorado was no more than an illusion. ![]() The kingdom, which the conquistadores had heard about from Indians, was said to be so plentiful in gold that its inhabitants ground the metal into powder and blew it through “hollow canes upon their naked bodies.” (El Dorado literally means the Gilded Man.) Thousands had died looking for this golden realm. For centuries, the conquistadores had searched the jungle for the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. He was searching for an ancient civilization, which he had named, simply, the City of Z.Įver since the Spanish conquistadors descended the Amazon River, in 1542, perhaps no region on the planet had so ignited the imagination – or lured so many men to their death. In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett ventured into the Amazon, vowing to make one of the most important archeological discoveries in history. The latter disappeared somewhere in the Brazilian Amazon in 1925 while hot on the trail of a supposed “lost city.” No trace of Fawcett or of his travelling companions was ever found–KM)ĭoes the Amazon jungle conceal a vanished empire? In the film, which Pitt’s “Plan B” production company will produce, Pitt will portray the English explorer, Percy Harrison Fawcett. ( Note: Paramount Productions has announced that Brad Pitt will star in an upcoming film set in the Amazon (and filmed in Bolivia) called “The Lost City of Z,” based on the non-fiction book of the same name. ![]()
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