'Laser eye' detects the thousand-year-old White City, ordinary people don't see

The White City or City of the Monkey God , which can be up to 1,000 years old, has ghostly appeared in the middle of the Honduran jungle thanks to a laser survey satellite.

Before that, this "legendary city" was searched by many explorers and archaeologists for hundreds of years without finding. Satellite surveys have discovered the mysterious ruins, much like the ancient text describes in La Mosquitia region at large to 3.500km ² in Honduras, a mysterious area is covered by forest, according to Live Science .

According to the description of adventurer Doug Elkins and his associates, scientists, explorers and supporting soldiers, coming from many different countries, the place they suspect is the White City - City of the Monkey God - is threatened by illegal logging and the wildlife trade.

Graphic image depicting "White City" - (Image: Science Channel)

Scientists have combined many clues from ground exploration to conduct a large-scale survey of the ground with lasers, thereby finding structures and The artifact, long swallowed up by the jungle, is believed to belong to an indigenous culture that is 1,000 years old.

According to the research team, the first find was a giant rock with an engraving on it, depicting a masked man, holding a stick and a sack, in the rainforest. so dense that it is impossible to see more than 6 meters in front.

Then, the LIDAR laser observation technique finally found "ghosts" of structures shaped like pyramids, terraced fields, sand roads, canals. According to Dr. Osca Castro, head of archeology at the Institute of Anthropology and History of Honduras (IHAH), the structures date back 1,000-1,400 years . Currently, they are still trying to approach and directly excavate.

Before that, in 1940, an American explorer named Theodore and Morde returned from an expedition to La Mosquitia with thousands of objects and claimed to have discovered the White City, according to National Geographic. However, this and subsequent expeditions still failed to identify the permanent structures that actually proved there was a city.

The legendary White City is characterized by tall white stone pillars and many giant temples also built of white stone, and a giant statue of the Monkey God that many books and movies have inspired, for example. For example, Walt Disney's The Jungle Book.

However, the place where the city is said to be is "swallowed" by a dense primeval forest, almost impossible to survey by satellite and reach by road is very dangerous. Many expeditions have failed to return, even losing lives when trying to find this legendary city.