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- Based on documentary research, Fawcett had by 1914 formulated ideas about a "lost city" he named "Z" (Zed) somewhere in the Mato Grosso. He theorized that a complex civilization once existed in the region and that isolated ruins might have survived.
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Nov 12, 2021 · After discovering shards of delicate, ancient pottery on the jungle floor, Fawcett began to formulate the idea that a mysterious lost city, which he named Z, existed deep in the Mato Grosso region of the Amazonian jungle, which would hold answers about pre-Hispanic civilisation.
- Sarah Roller
Apr 28, 2020 · In April 1925, veteran English explorer Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett hacked his way into the near-impenetrable jungle of Mato Grosso, deep in the sweaty unmapped mess of the Amazon, accompanied by his son Jack and young Raleigh Rimmell.
- Elinor Evans
Jun 6, 2023 · In 1901, Fawcett joined the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), intent on devoting his life to exploration. Renowned as the cradle of Victorian discovery, the RGS had already nurtured some of the most illustrious explorers of the day, including David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.
The Lost City of Z is the name given by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor of the early 20th century, to an indigenous city that he believed had existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of Brazil.
Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – disappeared 29 May 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America.
Jul 13, 2007 · Fawcett - or Lieutenant Colonel Fawcett to give him his full title - was born in Torquay in 1867 and went missing in South America in 1925, while on a quest to find the hidden city known as...
Jul 31, 2009 · The Early Expeditions. Fawcett underwent a formal training programme at the Royal Geographical Society in London, learning about navigation, survival and anthropology, among other things. He...
