A chieftain covered in gold dust plunges into a sacred lagoon in Colombia. This royal ceremony, performed by the Muisca people at Guatavita, became the legend of an entire city made of gold, and sent hundreds of expeditions to their deaths in the jungle for three centuries.

We explore the documented history: Jiménez de Quesada, Orellana discovering the Amazon, the madness of Lope de Aguirre, the mythical Lake Parime, Walter Raleigh's two expeditions that cost him and his son their lives, the attempts to drain Lake Guatavita, and the Muisca raft found in 1969, the real proof of the ritual.

Where does history end and legend begin, and how did European greed turn a spiritual rite into an obsession?

Historical curiosities that school forgot to teach you. New short film every day | Long video every Sunday.

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