Author Douglas Preston ’78 part of expedition that may have found fabled lost city

It’s all over the news  this week: the president of Honduras has announced that a team of researchers, using airborne laser mapping, may have found a fabled lost city deep in the rain forest of the Central American nation. Reports Innovation News Daily via MSNBC:

“Underneath the thick, virgin rainforest cover in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, archaeologists have discovered ruins they think may be the lost city of Ciudad Blanca … researchers flew over the area in a small plane and shot billions of laser pulses at the ground, creating a 3-D digital map of the topology underneath the trees.”

Adds ScienceDaily:

“The project has demonstrated the power of airborne laser mapping to locate archaeological ruins in regions covered with thick forest, and it appears that the method will be used widely in the years ahead.”

And, then, via an author’s web link to the Honduran government’s press release, we learn that our very own Douglas Preston ’78, best-selling author of both thrillers and non-fiction as well as New Yorker archaeology correspondent,  was along on the expedition. Can’t wait to find out what he was up to.

More about Douglas Preston and his brother Richard Preston ’76, who is also a best-selling writer:

“The Man Who Cried Plague” (an interview with the brothers))
“Of Cannibals and Monsters” (about new books from the Preston brothers)
Douglas Preston’s 2011 Commencement speech
Richard Preston ’76, Michael Crichton and Micro

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