The Lost City of the Monkey God Has Finally Been Discovered

Returning to Civilization

Morde came back from his travels with thousands of claimed artifacts and stories about the missing city. He said the local people told him tales of a monkey god. He never saw it but said that the god was immortalized in a statue buried deep beneath the earth. Thus, he named the city the Lost City of the Monkey God…

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.