Four hundred and sixty-seven years of documented searching. Dozens of published maps, each contradicting the last. No expedition has ever filed a confirmed return.
Each discovery was announced with total confidence. Each was subsequently mislaid. This is the documented history, and we did not invent any of it.
The Italian anatomist announces the find in De re anatomica and names it "the seat of woman's delight." He is quite sure he is the first.
The man with the tubes named after him insists he got there first. The two claims are never reconciled.
Points out it had been described since antiquity and that no one needed to discover anything. The expedition continues regardless.
Editions of the standard anatomical reference quietly drop it. Not disproved. Just left off the map.
An Australian urologist publishes the first full anatomical description and finds the structure is roughly ten times the size every textbook had printed. Four hundred and thirty-nine years after the first claim.
The map exists. It has existed since 1998. Search parties continue to depart without consulting it.
Catalogued from returning parties. All were confidently logged at the time.
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