Percy harrison fawcett biography

Hypothesized city in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil

For other uses, see Lost City of Z (disambiguation).

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 biography

Based on early histories of South America and his own explorations of the Amazon River region, Fawcett theorized that a complex civilization had once existed there, and that isolated ruins may have survived.^[1] Fawcett and two companions disappeared during an expedition to find evidence of the hypothesized civilization in 1925.

History

Fawcett found a document known as Manuscript 512, held at the National Library of Brazil, believed to have been written by Portuguese bandeirantesJoão da Silva Guimarães [pt].

According to the document, in 1753, a group of bandeirantes discovered the ruins of an ancient city t