But this place of immeasurable riches hasn't been found.

In 1595, Sir Walter Raleigh sailed to South America in search of the fabled El Dorado. Gold had long fascinated Europeans, and Raleigh was determined that his expedition would bring back untold ...

Further, in 1849, Edgar Allen Poe composed El Dorado where the metaphorical Gallant Knight in search of El Dorado remains a conceptual myth in the real world.

The first formal expedition in search of El Dorado was launched from Cuzco, Peru, in 1541 under the direction of Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Francisco Pizarro who had led the Spanish assault on ...

A dorado kicked up a large swirl of water, then launched its torpedo-shaped body completely out of the water in a blur of gold, red, and black. It shook its head about six times and landed ...

With no sign of the fabled lost city of El Dorado, treasure hunters in the late 1500s turned their attention to a mythical body of water: Lake Parime.

El Dorado, a mythical city of gold in the Amazon forest, has remained elusive even as countless expeditions have gone in search of it.

Many expeditions have tried to find El Dorado, but has anyone succeeded? Some even lost their head in the attempt.