The Secret of El Dorado

Programmes

• Moon Machines
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The Underwater Dream Machine
• Nuclear Nightmares
• Hitler's Sunken Secret
• Global Dimming
• Project Poltergeist
• Magnetic Flip
• The Secret of El Dorado
• Rocket Men of Mission 105
• The Day the Oceans Boiled
• Hunt for the Death Star
• The Great Dog Race
• Einstein's Biggest Blunder

First transmitted on BBC2 / Horizon, 2002

New evidence that advanced societies flourished in the Amazon Basin before the arrival of Europeans

It was the most notorious wild-goose chase in history: the Conquistadors’ search for El Dorado, a fabulous kingdom of gold that Indians said lay hidden in the jungles of the Amazon Basin. But now, at last, archaeologists have uncovered the truth behind that myth. They have found evidence of a huge society, as advanced as the Egyptians or the Incas, right in the heart of the rainforest. And this is more than the story of a lost world rediscovered. For it seems that the people of the real El Dorado possessed a secret with the power to transform our world.