What Was Here Before Venezuela's Tabletop Mountains?

For two hundred years, every serious mapmaker in Europe drew a lake in South America — measured, named, and given a depth in feet. On its shore they placed a city they called the richest in the world. Then, sometime in the 1600s, the lake and the city both disappeared from the record, and the whole thing was quietly filed as a story someone made up. But the accounts left behind are hard to put down. A soldier led there blindfolded. Towns described as built like European stone architecture. Two tons of gold shaped like a giant, unloaded at a Spanish dock in 1593. And a few hundred miles away, a mountaintop covered in stone that looks, to almost everyone who sees it, like the remains of buildings. Subscribe for more forgotten history. This video contains AI-generated illustrations used to visualise structures described in historical accounts. All maps, engravings and photographs of Mount Roraima are genuine