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Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z
In 1925, Percy Fawcett, a decorated British officer and veteran explorer, walked into the Brazilian Amazon chasing a ten-page document from 1753, then disappeared so completely that decades of rescue missions never recovered proof of what happened. The document was Manuscript 512, a Brazilian archive curiosity describing an abandoned stone city with a triple archway, spire-like obelisks, strange inscriptions, mine shafts, and a gold coin unlike any known pre-Columbian work. Fawcett believed it pointed to a lost Amazon civilization he called Z.
He took the claim seriously after years of…
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