New technology leads to the discovery of an ancient lost
city in the Honduran jungle:
“Around 1500,
something catastrophic appeared to have happened in T1 that triggered the
abandonment of the city …
It was, more
likely, disease that had devastated this city. To understand the collapse of
this mysterious civilization, we have to go back to October of 1493, when
Columbus set sail on his second voyage to the New World with an enormous
flotilla of seventeen ships carrying fifteen hundred men and thousands of head
of livestock. Columbus and his men also unwittingly carried microscopic
pathogens from Europe, to which the people of the New World had no genetic
resistance. His travels throughout the Caribbean unleashed the first of a
series of deadly pandemics that swept the Caribbean and Central America….
Anthropologists
have documented that, between 1518 and 1550, almost ninety per cent of the
native people of Honduras died of disease.”