"I don't think we've ever stopped seeking El Dorado." So where is this lost city of gold? In his 1849 poem "El Dorado," writer Edgar Allan Poe offers an eerie and eloquent suggestion: "Over the ...

Then a Spanish soldier named Juan Martín de Albujar claimed on his deathbed to have visited the golden city ... that El Dorado was likely a myth. But seizing on Roe’s confirmation of gold ...

Our obsession with gold spans many eras and nationalities. Our lust for this shiny metal gave rise to the myth of El Dorado, a lost city of gold waiting to be discovered by adventurous conquerors.