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Manuscript 512 (Portuguese: Manuscrito 512) is a ten-page manuscript of dubious veracity and unknown authorship that relates the discovery of a "lost city" in Bahia, Brazil by a group of bandeirantes in 1753.
Manuscript 512 is a 1754 Portuguese text that claims to describe a ruined stone city in Brazil discovered by explorers in 1753. The text is a work of historical fiction, inspired by the Roman architecture and the Venusian gods of Theosophy.
Jul 26, 2017 · Inscriptions on Manuscript 512 were found at Piracicaba, Brazil. These inscriptions were written in the Vai script by Malian colonists. Malian inscriptions were left in areas suitable for settlement. Once a safe place was found for settlement, the Malian colonists built stone cities or mound habitations.
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Mar 27, 2024 · When the explorer Percy Fawcett vanished in 1925 searching for the mythical Lost City of Z, he was also hunting a fabulous city described in Manuscript 512 in the National Library in Rio de Janeiro.
Fawcett found a document known as Manuscript 512, held at the National Library of Brazil, believed to have been written by Portuguese bandeirante João da Silva Guimarães . According to the document, in 1753, a group of bandeirantes discovered the ruins of an ancient city that contained arches, a statue and a temple with hieroglyphs .
Mar 14, 2019 · Manuscript 512. In 1920, Fawcett came across a document in the National Library of Rio De Janeiro called Manuscript 512. It was written by a Portuguese explorer in 1753, who claimed to have found a walled city deep in the Mato Grosso region of the Amazon rainforest reminiscent of ancient Greece.
The enigmatic 512 Manuscript describing an ancient Mediterranean civilization in pre-Hispanic Brazil. Like a Lovecraft tale, the Rare Works section of the National Library of Brazil jealously guards a strange ten-page document baptized with the suggestive name of Manuscript 512. It narrates an eighteenth-century expedition during which the ...
