Ten Missing Cities Through Human History
(9 years ago)A lost city is a city that has become uninhabited, and its location has been forgotten. The search for such lost cities has intrigued the curiosity of explorers and adventurers since the 15th century and led to the development of archaeology! A lost city should not be confused with ghost cities. [...]
Following are the ten cities lost throughout human history, according to the writing conveyed by fathers.
1. Machu Picchu Peru
Machu Picchu, also known as “The missing city of Incas” is the world's most famous Inca country. It's a 15th century country located on a mountain 2430m above sea level, about 80km northwest of Cusco. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an asset to Emperor Incas Pachacuti. Machu Picchu is the most attractive and visiting place for tourists in Peru.
2. Angkor- Cambodia
Angkor was a prosperous city from the 9th to the 15th century and we find Angkor Watt the world's largest religious monument. In the 15th century, the city began its creation and was conquered and looted. The city was almost entirely abandoned and forgotten, but the temple built by King Khmer Suryavarman 2, as its state temple and later mausoleum survived, and today Angkor Wat is the most famous monument and the most visited site in Cambodia. It has become a country symbol and appears on its national flag
3. Pompeii - Italy
Pompeii's story is probably the most famous story on this list of extinct cities. In 79, AD Mount Vesuvius exploded. Vesuvius, still one of the world's most active volcanoes, buried the cities of Hersulaneuum and Pompeii. The inhabitants of the cities fled, or were buried together, and in the cities that were destroyed and forgotten over the years. In the 18th century, they were rediscovered during excavations, and today Pompeii is flourishing as a tourist attraction, offering a brief look in the past, in a city that froze almost 2,000 years ago.
4. Petra é Jordan
Petra was the ancient capital of the Nabatean kingdom. A town carved with stones on the side of Wad Musa. The city was probably founded at the beginning of 312 B.C.E. and flourished for a long time, since it was an important intersection for the streets of silk and spices linking the East and West. The city began to become rent and was finally abandoned in the 6th century after a series of earthquakes destroyed its water supply. The important and beautiful city was finally forgotten. It was discovered in the Western world only in 1812.
5. Tikal '% Guatemala
Tikal was an ancient city of Maya civilization, located in tropical forests in Guatemala. The city flourished as the capital of a mighty kingdom until it was conquered by Teotihuacan in the fourth century AD. After being conquered, it gradually collapsed until it was finally abandoned at the end of the 10th century. Today, the city is one of the largest archaeological sites of Maya civilization and is known for many pyramid - shaped temples, including the Temple of the Great Jaguar ʹ, one of the most prominent pyramids in the world.
6. Teotihuacan '% Mexico
Teotihuacan is an archaeological site near the city of Mexico. The city is packed with pyramids and is some 20 square miles (8 sq km). It was a big urban and home center with probably 100,000 people. The city was destroyed and abandoned some 1400 years ago. Centuries after they were forgotten, the city was occupied by the Aztecs. The modern name was given by the Aztec people and the meaning is “the place where the gods were created”. It is unclear who the original builders of the mysterious city were. Teotihuacan is also home to the Pyramid of the Sun one of the most amazing pyramids in the world.
7. Tiwanaku é Bolivia
Situated near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku was an important regional power in the Southern Andes between the 7th and the 9th centuries. There are thought to be between 15,000 and 30,000 people or more. About the year 1000 after Christ, climate change prevented Twaanak from continuing to produce food, causing the city to fall and abandon.
8. Palenque '% Mexico
Situated in modern southern Mexico, Palenka was a Mayan city that flourished during the 7th century. Palenca fell during the 8th century, totally diving into the thick, time-forgotten jungle. Interest was raised again during the 19th century, and later the city was dug up and restored, and now it is a popular archaeological site visited by many tourists each year.
9. Troy
Turkey for centuries was considered only a legend, a city that never really existed outside Homer's poems, and especially Iliades, mentioned as part of the Troy War. The legend proved true only in the 1860 ' s when it was dug in northwestern Anatolia. Now we know that the city was constantly destroyed and rebuilt, and it slowly fell down until finally abandoned during the Byzantine era.
10. Atlantida
Unlike the rest of the cities on this list, Atlantis was never found, and historians almost unanimously agree that it never existed. Atlantida was mentioned in an allegory on nations in Plato's works, and in this allegory, Atlantida eventually sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the fact that most agree that the city never existed, some people still seek the remains of the most famous city lost in history, which according to Plato is “beyond the pillars of Hercules”. There are many hypothesiss regarding the location of Atlanta, the Mediterranean islands, the island in northern Europe, and even Antarctica is mentioned as a possible location. / KultPlus. com
