The legend of El Dorado endures because "you want it to be true," says Jose Oliver, a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. "I don't think we've ever stopped ...

It began as a story of a golden king and became a centuries-long obsession. This is how El Dorado transformed from ritual to legend.

400 years on, and with the site of El Dorado still undiscovered ... Serious Explorers have come to Mount Roraima to relive the legend of Raleigh. Expedition to Guyana - life in the rainforest.