A "lost golden city" made global headlines in 2021 before any real analysis existed, and the gold itself was never explained. Popular culture, from King Solomon's Mines to Indiana Jones, has spent over a century training audiences to expect revelation, while actual fieldwork runs on years of dust, measurement and slow, contested argument.

— via The Conversation — History, Stephan Blum, Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen