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Since the time of the Spanish colonist Hernán Cortés, there have been rumors in Europe that there is a lost city with riches hidden somewhere in the interior of Honduras, Central America. The indigenous people call it the "White City" or the "City of the Monkey God". Aboriginal people say their ancestors traveled there to escape Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who breaks into the holy city will be cursed and die. In 1940, journalist Theodore A. Moder brought back hundreds of artifacts and a touching story from the rainforest, then committed suicide without revealing the city's location. Terrible curses and legends failed to stop successive explorers from breaking into the rainforest. Three-quarters of a century later, documentary filmmaker and explorer Steve Elkins organized a scientific expedition to search for the Lost City. Using laser mapping technology and passing through dangerous dense rainforests, they found the ruins of an ancient city and a mysterious lost civilization... But the "Monkey God's Curse" still came, and the expedition members who returned to the civilized world were horrified to find that they had contracted a terrible disease. This book not only tells a suspenseful adventure documentary story, it also explores issues worthy of reflection such as the ethics of archaeological expeditions, human destruction of the rainforest, the application of new technologies, and the impact of archeology on indigenous peoples.