“Lost City of the Monkey God,” which airs Oct. 31 on the Science Channel, follows filmmaker and explorer Doug Elkins as he and a team of researchers, survival specialists and several Honduran special forces soldiers, providing security for the crew, explore the presumed site, Live Science reported on Friday.Scientists first identified an area of what could be the lost city in 2015 — some 75 years after American explorer Theodore Morde unearthed thousands of artifacts during his expedition to La Mosquitia, according to a National Geographic report, tied to the rediscovery of the White City.
Morde returned with tales from indigenous people from the area, who claimed that a giant statue of a monkey god had been buried there.
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