Lost Cities of the New World

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

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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