Janet's Husband Steve Elkins Making Worldwide Headlines
If you have known Janet for a while you probably heard that her husband of more than three decades has spent more than two decades searching for the fabled Lost City in the jungle of Honduras. HE FOUND TWO and visited ONE.
22 years ago Steve, who graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor Degree in Earth Science and Education and never lost his passion for archeological adventure, met an adventurer and explorer named Steve Morgan. The chance encounter resulted in a documentary film project about the fabled Ciudad Blanca, or Lost City, or City of The Monkey Gods. The documentary team did not find it in 1994 but Steve's interest and curiosity were peaked!
Thus started a 22-year long project, with the aim to finally find the famous Lost City.
You may have seen the worldwide headlines this past week!
Steve's dream has come true!
His painstaking work, commitment and dedication resulted in success!
22 years of research, making contacts, combing through archives in Central America and the USA, countless hours on the internet and more on the phone finally paid off!
Steve Elkins: "When we went into the Mosquitia in 1994 we still had to have carriers bring in heavy generators for camera batteries and we carried a 28-pound Betacam. All archeological research had to be done on the ground. The whole team hiked days through rivers and over mountains to get into remote parts of the jungle. Many parts of the Mosquitia however were essentially inaccessible to humans. Looking for a specific site given the vastness of the area and difficult terrain was more problematic than finding that proverbial needle in the haystack. Modern technology changed all that!
Furthermore, archeologists who work in Honduras have come to the conclusion that there are many "lost cities" under the jungle vegetation. It's very hard to know whether there is a "White City" or which site would actually correspond with the legend.
Forward to 2012. 18 years into the project, Steve had established the most likely area in Honduras. He had also found partners willing to finance the work of a team of scientists Steve had put together to explore the area with Lidar technology. Two years ago the Lidar expedition made headlines as it clearly established the presence of structures only humans could have created.
It took another two years to organize the ground expedition needed to substantiate the Lidar data in person, the so-called "ground-truthing".
Steve: "In 2012 we found evidence of two sites in this general area. We do not know whether they are related in age and civilization or not. This February we visited one site and did establish that this is a site of a larger human settlement. Team member Oscar Neil Cruz, head archaeologist at the Honduran Instituto de Antroplogia y Historia believes the artifacts date to A.D. 1000 to 1400
The team was comprised of scientists, film makers, Honduran Special Forces soldiers for protection, British former SAS jungle specialists and support staff.
The results have made worldwide headlines!
22 years ago Steve, who graduated from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor Degree in Earth Science and Education and never lost his passion for archeological adventure, met an adventurer and explorer named Steve Morgan. The chance encounter resulted in a documentary film project about the fabled Ciudad Blanca, or Lost City, or City of The Monkey Gods. The documentary team did not find it in 1994 but Steve's interest and curiosity were peaked!
Thus started a 22-year long project, with the aim to finally find the famous Lost City.
You may have seen the worldwide headlines this past week!
Steve's dream has come true!
His painstaking work, commitment and dedication resulted in success!
22 years of research, making contacts, combing through archives in Central America and the USA, countless hours on the internet and more on the phone finally paid off!
Steve Elkins: "When we went into the Mosquitia in 1994 we still had to have carriers bring in heavy generators for camera batteries and we carried a 28-pound Betacam. All archeological research had to be done on the ground. The whole team hiked days through rivers and over mountains to get into remote parts of the jungle. Many parts of the Mosquitia however were essentially inaccessible to humans. Looking for a specific site given the vastness of the area and difficult terrain was more problematic than finding that proverbial needle in the haystack. Modern technology changed all that!
Furthermore, archeologists who work in Honduras have come to the conclusion that there are many "lost cities" under the jungle vegetation. It's very hard to know whether there is a "White City" or which site would actually correspond with the legend.
Forward to 2012. 18 years into the project, Steve had established the most likely area in Honduras. He had also found partners willing to finance the work of a team of scientists Steve had put together to explore the area with Lidar technology. Two years ago the Lidar expedition made headlines as it clearly established the presence of structures only humans could have created.
It took another two years to organize the ground expedition needed to substantiate the Lidar data in person, the so-called "ground-truthing".
Steve: "In 2012 we found evidence of two sites in this general area. We do not know whether they are related in age and civilization or not. This February we visited one site and did establish that this is a site of a larger human settlement. Team member Oscar Neil Cruz, head archaeologist at the Honduran Instituto de Antroplogia y Historia believes the artifacts date to A.D. 1000 to 1400
The team was comprised of scientists, film makers, Honduran Special Forces soldiers for protection, British former SAS jungle specialists and support staff.
The results have made worldwide headlines!
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