In the 1920s, British officer Percy Fawcett led an expedition deep into the forests of the Amazon to find an indigenous lost city where a civilization once flourished in the mid 1700s. The city was thought to have contained large statues and a temple with hieroglyphics. Fawcett called it the Lost City of Z.
His first attempt to find the city failed, as Fawcett had to return after getting a fever in the jungle. For his second attempt, in 1925, he took along his son, Jack, and the two were never seen again.
Since then, hundreds of explorers and scientists have died read more >>>
Source : BusinessInsider.Com