SOME people are suckers for lost cities.
"Fawcett was probably the last person who came in here looking for lost cities".
More than 80 years ago, another adventurer came to these jungles, looking for lost cities, buried treasure and mystical ancient objects with strange powers.
While other archaeologists spend their careers looking for "lost" cities, Dr. Clark L. Erickson of the University of Pennsylvania Museum keeps a practiced eye out for "lost" landscapes.
They go there to search for a lost city and, of course, save the world.
Her descriptions of the downtown New York art scene in the early 80s are an elegy for a lost city, with cameos by Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Larry Gagosian, David Salle, Richard Prince and many others.
Elkins flew to Houston and asked if he could hire the center's expertise to search for the lost city; if he found anything, Elkins would bring in archeologists and scholars to analyze the data and supervise any ground expeditions.
Some archaeologists concluded that it had been part of a mosque, called it the minaret of Jam and looked for the lost city of the Turquoise Mountain in the valley.
From Popular Archaeology: Indeed, according to Collins, when comparing it with the remains of other nearby ancient cities, along with its prime location and dates of occupation, it emerges today as the best candidate for the lost city of Sodom -- the infamous city that, based on the Biblical account, was destroyed by God in a fiery cataclysm because of its iniquity.
Aciman, who has written so exquisitely about exile, loss and Proust in his book of essays, "False Papers," and his memoir, "Out of Egypt," is no less exquisite here in his evocation of Elio's adoration for the lost city of Oliver's body and the lost city of the love between the two men.
The Lost City of Z, which recently nabbed the closing night slot at the New York film festival, appears to be his biggest and most mainstream effort to date, by telling a true story about British military man (Charlie Hunnam) who embarks on a decades-long search for a lost city deep in the Amazon during the 1920s.
