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[Doug]

Came across this; by now there might be enough evidence for a new list ???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/776952.stm
Sunday, 4 June, 2000, 17:01 GMT 18:01 UK
Explorer finds lost city

By the BBC's Daniel Schweimler

American explorer Gene Savoy says he has discovered a
pre-Hispanic
city deep in virgin rainforest in eastern Peru.

The explorer and his team of archaeologists believe they have
uncovered the city of Cajamarquilla - one of the lost
cities of the
Chachapoyas people who moved to eastern Peru about AD 700.

He said his team had only just begun uncovering the
stone city, which
contains up to 150 buildings, including houses,
temples and burial
sites.

El Dorado?

The 65sq km site, which lies on the Saposoa river,
includes stone
roads weaving through a network of terraced cliffs and
at least 36 burial
towers.

In the euphoria of their find, some members of the
team have even said
they might have come across the fabled city of El
Dorado - the Golden
City long sought by the Spanish conquerors.

But Savoy has stressed that no gold has been found and he has
refused to reveal the exact whereabouts of the site
for fear of attracting
thieves.

Warriors

The American explorer has, during more than 40 years
of working in the
region, found several other settlements built by the
Chachapoyas,
including the city of Gran Vilaya - a complex of
20,000 stone buildings
that he believes was the capital of the Chachapoyas empire.

They were tall, fair-skinned warriors who were
defeated in the 15th
Century by the Incas, shortly before the Spanish
conquest of Peru.
The Incas so respected their fighting prowess that
they used them as
their bodyguards.

With the excitement of their discovery still fresh,
the explorers are now
beginning the methodical task of scraping away the thick jungle
vegetation to reveal more details about the
little-known Chachapoyas
empire.