34 lost cities forgotten by time

30. Memphis[SEE MAP]

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Memphis, founded around 3,100 BC, is the legendary city of Menes, the King who united Upper and Lower Egypt. Early on, Memphis was more likely a fortress from which Menes controlled the land and water routes between Upper Egypt and the Delta. By the Third Dynasty, Saqqara had become a sizable city. It fell successively to Nubia, Assyria, Persia, and Macedonia under Alexander the Great. Its importance as a religious centre was undermined by the rise of Christianity and then of Islam. It was abandoned after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 AD. Its ruins include the great temple of Ptah, royal palaces, and a colossal statue of Rameses II. Nearby are the pyramids of Saqqara.

8 Great Zimbabwe: The Medieval Castle Of Africa

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In the early 16th century, Portuguese explorers started reporting that they’d heard legends about a castle in Africa. In the land today known as Zimbabwe, the natives told them, was a stone fortress that towered over the trees. The locals called it “Symbaoe,” and even they didn’t know who had built it.

One explorer wrote home, “When, and by whom, these edifices were raised, as the people of the land are ignorant of the art of writing, there is no record, but they say they are the work of the devil, for in comparison with their power and knowledge it does not seem possible to them that they should be the work of man.”

For centuries, Europeans thought Symbaoe was just a superstitious story. Then, in the 19th century, they actually found it. There, in Zimbabwe, was a massive castle with stone walls more than 11 meters (36 ft) tall.

The castle was made in AD 900 by an African civilization that has been lost to time—but they were incredibly connected. Inside the fortress, relics were found from all around the world, likely gathered by trading with other countries. There were Arab coins, Persian pottery, and even relics from the Chinese Ming dynasty.

Great Zimbabwe is more than just a castle. It’s proof that a lost African civilization, forgotten to history, had trade routes that connected all the way to China.

затерянный город

в этом городе померк свет

мне нужно убираться отсюда!

ты цветок, распускающийся в темноте.

я улетаю, и лишь ты напоследок пленил_а мой взор

надеясь увидеть ещё раз, распахиваю глаза

вот он я, потерянный

всё стремительнее, набираем ход

мечты одна за другой рухнули

никто и ничто

никакой любви не осталось

даже малейшего следа

я задыхаюсь, потерявший себя

ребёнка, мечтавшего о вечности, уже нет

приветствие — ещё одно прощание,

любовь фальшива

не на что положится, тщетно ищу выход из сложившейся ситуации

оставляю багаж прошлого и улетаю отсюда.

проживая в своём затерянном городе

я на самом деле не люблю никого

разрозненное время настигает нас, мы в опасности.

сквозь налитые кровью глаза

я приветствую твоё поблекшее отражение и воспоминания о моём глупом прошлом.

позволяю времени унести все воспоминания.

время на исходе

ну же, лети

город опасен, город в огне. выхода нет

собираюсь улететь подальше отсюда, собираюсь убежать.

надеясь увидеть ещё раз, распахиваю глаза

вот он я, совсем потерянный

всё стремительнее, набираем ход

мечты одна за другой рухнули

никто и ничто.

никакой любви не осталось

даже малейшего следа

я задыхаюсь, потерявший себя

ребёнка, мечтавшего о вечности, уже нет

приветствие — ещё одно прощание,

любовь фальшива

не на что положится, тщетно ищу выход из сложившейся ситуации

оставляю багаж прошлого и улетаю отсюда.

проживая в своём затерянном городе.

тебя это нисколько не заботит

твой голос недосягаем

прочь с дороги

проживая в своём затерянном городе.

сейчас я сомневаюсь

взгляни на меня, ведь я всё тот же

а теперь, прочь с дороги

тяжело дышать, я потерял свой путь.

вcё, что осталось —разбито вдребезги. локаут

не могу быть честным даже в мелочах. всё окутано ложью, ложью

отчаливаю, потому что не могу быть счастливым здесь

но не волнуйся, я последую за тобой

я собираюсь убираться отсюда

и лишь ты напоследок пленяешь мой взор

надеясь увидеть ещё раз, распахиваю глаза

вот он я, совсем потерянный

всё стремительнее, набираем ход

мечты одна за другой исчезли

никто и ничто.

никакой любви не осталось

даже малейшего следа

я задыхаюсь, потерявший себя

ребёнка, мечтавшего о вечности, уже нет.

приветствие — ещё одно прощание,

любовь фальшива

не на что положиться, тщетно ищу выход из сложившейся ситуации

оставляю багаж прошлого и улетаю отсюда.

1. решила не переводить эту строчку дословно, так как больше склоняюсь к художественному переводу. spinning in circles every day — ежедневно ходить по кругу. как известно, в русском языке есть фразеологизм / выражение «ходить по кругу» то есть говорить обиняками, не касаясь сути дела; скрывать истинные цели общения, разговора с кем-либо; многократно повторять одни и те же схожие приёмы, не продвигаясь вперёд в делах, общении, понимании; бессмысленное возвращение к старому, давно прошедшему.

This is a poetic translation — deviations from the meaning of the original are present (extra words, extra or omitted information, substituted concepts).

прошу указывать кредиты при использовании моего перевода ♡ / if repost, please put credits!

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3. Tikal[SEE MAP]

Between ca. 200 to 900 AD, Tikal was the largest Mayan city with an estimated population between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants. As Tikal reached peak population, the area around the city suffered deforestation and erosion followed by a rapid decline in population levels. Tikal lost the majority of its population during the period from 830 to 950 and central authority seems to have collapsed rapidly. After 950, Tikal was all but deserted, although a small population may have survived in huts among the ruins. Even these people abandoned the city in the 10th or 11th centuries and the Guatemalan rainforest claimed the ruins for the next thousand years.

24. Mohenjo-daro[SEE MAP]

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Built around 2600 BC in present-day Pakistan, Mohenjo-daro was one of the early urban settlements in the world. It is sometimes referred to as “An Ancient Indus Valley Metropolis”. It has a planned layout based on a grid of streets, which were laid out in perfect patterns. At its height the city probably had around 35,000 residents. The buildings of the city were particularly advanced, with structures constructed of same-sized sun dried bricks of baked mud and burned wood. Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Valley civilization vanished without a trace from history around 1700 BC until discovered in the 1920s.

20. Hattusa[SEE MAP]

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Hattusa became the capital of the Hittite Empire in the 17th century BC. The city was destroyed, together with the Hittite state itself, around 1200 BC, as part of the Bronze Age collapse. The site was subsequently abandoned. Modern estimates put the population of the city between 40,000 and 50,000 at it’s the peak. The dwelling houses which were built with timber and mud bricks have vanished from the site, leaving only the ruins of the stone built temples and palaces. The lost city was rediscovered in the beginning of the 20th century in central Turkey by a German archeological team. One of the most important discoveries at the site has been clay tablets, consisting of legal codes, procedures and literature of the ancient Near East.

4 Vinland: The Viking Land Of Plenty

Photo credit: Clinton Pierce

In AD 1073, a German cleric named Adam of Bremen spoke to the Danish king Sven Estridsson. The Vikings, Estridsson told him, had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and found a distant land where everything grew boundlessly. “It is called Vinland,” the cleric reported, “because vines grow there of their own accord.”

He wasn’t the only one telling the story. The Vikings had been passing it down themselves, saying they’d fought with natives who lived there, whom they’d named the Skraelingar. The Skraelingar, they said, dressed in white clothes and lived in caves and holes. When they attacked, they carried long poles and charged, screaming out loud cries of war.

Vinland was thought to be a Viking myth for centuries, even after the Spanish reached the Americas. It took until the 1960s until we found out they were telling the truth. Then, at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement made in the 11th century—the Vinland they’d told so many stories about.

Gordium: King Midas’ great capital

, or Górdion (pronounced Gor-di-yon) in Turkish, was the capital city of the ancient Phrygian Empire. Located in Asia Minor, it is roughly 47 miles (75 km) SW of Ankara. 

The city lies on what was once the ancient road between Lydia and Assyria that crossed the Sangarius River. Gordium’s most famous ruler was the quasi-legendary King Midas.

Gordium was sacked by the Cimmerians and subsequently abandoned in around 800 BCE but was rebuilt by the Persians.

Alexander the Great is said to have visited the city and solved the puzzle of the Gordian Knot, which said that whoever could loosen the knot would rule Asia — Alexander is said to have solved this problem by simply cutting the knot.

The forgotten city was rediscovered and excavated in 1900 by Gustav and Alfred Korte, and later by the Pennsylvanian Museum, between 1950 and 1973.

12. Palmyra[SEE MAP]

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For centuries Palmyra (“city of palm trees”) was an important and wealthy city located along the caravan routes linking Persia with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria. Beginning in 212, Palmyra’s trade diminished as the Sassanids occupied the mouth of the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Roman Emperor Diocletian built a wall and expanded the city in order to try and save it from the Sassanid threat. The city was captured by the Muslim Arabs in 634 but kept intact. The city declined under Ottoman rule, reducing to no more than an oasis village. In the 17th century its location was rediscovered by western travelers.

Helike: an ancient Greek city that sank

could very well be the real Atlantis. According to Greek legend, Helike was destroyed by an enraged and vengeful Poseidon for the Helikonians’ refusal to give their renowned statue of the sea god, or even a copy of it, to Ionian Greek colonists in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).

Based on accounts of ancient sources and on recent archaeology, it is believed that an earthquake in 373 BCE caused the groundbeneath the entire city to liquefy. A tsunami then engulfed the sunken city. According to ancient sources, the city disappeared in the space of just an hour or two and there were no survivors. 

Helike was rediscovered in the 1980s by two archaeologists who had been searching for it for over a decade. It has since been partially excavated.

Taxila was captured by Darius and later surrendered to Alexander the Great

, aka Takshashila, is a rediscovered ancient city in northern Pakistan. The ruins are situated near modern Taxila in the Punjab region of Pakistan roughly 35 km (22 miles) NW of Rawalpindi.

The ancient city was captured by the Persian king, Darius the Great in 518 BC and later surrendered to Alexander the Great. It would go through a period of rule by various other conquerors before becoming an important Buddhist site.

It is thought to have been founded around 1000 BC; it would become an important city in the region owing to its position on East-West trade routes.

It would later undergo a period of decline until it was finally destroyed by the Huns in the 5th century AD. The city was rediscovered by Alexander Cunningham in the mid-19th century.

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Trivia[]

• Shannon Messenger had fans vote on what they wanted Iggy to look like in the 7th book. Sparkles won by a landslide, while it was very close between red and yellow for the coloring.
• Shannon Messenger had fans vote on the color and style of Iggy in the 8th book. The choices were ice-blue and teal, and ice-blue won. Iggy was ice-blue with crimped fur.
• The pink dancing Iggy probably refers to Iggy Azalea.
• Iggy’s «Purple Reign» is most likely a reference to Prince, with his famous song, «Purple Rain.»
• The elixir used to turn the stinky imp green was called Greenleaf.
• Iggy loves chomping on his fur if it is long enough.
• Iggy was inspired by a Pygmy Marmoset and was originally supposed to be a mini kangaroo, but Shannon Messenger kept imagining him (or her) falling off Sophie’s shoulder because of the small arms.
• Shannon Messenger had fans vote on Iggy’s color for Book 8.5: Unlocked, the choices were Mermaid or Unicorn. Mermaid won by a landslide. Iggy ended up being Mermaid with Tiger Stripes.
• In Unlocked, Shannon Messenger says that an adorable little girl asked her at one of the Exile tour what Iggy’s color going to be in Book 3.

Как теряются города

Города могут быть потеряны по разным причинам, включая стихийные бедствия, экономические или социальные потрясения или войны.

Incan столица Vilcabamba была разрушена и обезлюдела во время испанского завоевания Перу в 1572 году . Испанцы не восстанавливали город, и это место осталось незамеченным и забыто, пока оно не было обнаружено заново путем подробного изучения писем и документов того периода.

Троя была городом, расположенным на северо-западе Анатолии на территории современной Турции. Он наиболее известен как центр Троянской войны, описанной в греческом эпическом цикле и особенно в « Илиаде» , одном из двух эпических стихотворений, приписываемых Гомеру . Неоднократно разрушаемый и перестраиваемый, город постепенно приходил в упадок и был заброшен в византийскую эпоху. Погребенный временем, город был предан царству легенд до тех пор, пока в 1860-х годах в этом месте не были впервые раскопаны.

Другие поселения потеряны, без каких-либо признаков их упадка. Например, остров Молден в центральной части Тихого океана был безлюден, когда европейцы впервые посетили его в 1825 году, но неожиданное присутствие разрушенных храмов и остатков других построек, найденных на острове, указывает на то, что население полинезийцев проживало там, возможно, несколько лет. поколениями несколькими столетиями ранее. Продолжительная засуха кажется наиболее вероятным объяснением их гибели, а отдаленность острова означала небольшое количество посетителей.

Unlocked Descriptions of Known Lost Cities[]

Splendor Plains: Elwin’s residence is just as bright and bold as his fashion sense, and every pane of his widowed walls is set with a different color of glass. But the architecture is also surprisingly sleek and modern, with a flat roof and lots of sharp angles. And while the décor is some what sparse there are plenty of «Elwin» touches-like the room holding his stuffed animal collection and the tunnels visible under the glass floor, which allow his pet banshee(Bullhorn) to scurry wherever his little heart desires. The house is bordered by forest on one side and ocean on the other, providing Foxfire’s resident physician with a variety of peaceful views to enjoy after stressful days in the Healing Center (most of which involve complicated injuries suffered by Sophie Foster).

Wanderling Woods: As the Lost Cities’ only graveyard, the Wanderling Woods is a place of peaceful silence, filled with carefully arranged, incredibly special trees. Wanderlings are planted with the DNA of someone deceased in order to grow with hints of their physical attributes. As a result, no two Wanderlings are alike, and each is labeled with a sign to indicate the life being memorialized- though there are three Wanderlings that were planted prematurely: Sophie Foster’s, Dex Dizznee’s, and Alden Vacker’s. Only elves may enter the Wanderling Woods (unless special permission is granted by the Council), and a golden sign arches over the entrance reminding visitors that «those who wander are not lost.» And while some might comment on how few trees grow in the woods-and claim it as proof that death is rare in the Lost Cities-those mourning loved ones would likely argue that there are still far too many Wanderlings.

Quotes[]

—Narration, in Flashback

Places

Lost Cities Cities Atlantis Eternalia Gildingham Lumenaria Marintrylla Mysterium Ravagog Serenvale Residences Candleshade Choralmere Dawnheath Everglen Fluttermont Havenfield Mistmead Rimeshire Riverdrift Shores of Solace Solreef Splendor Plains Sterling Gables Widgetmoor Hideouts Black Swan Hideouts Alluveterre Brumevale Stone House Neverseen Hideouts The Sixteen Former Hideouts Pallidrose Gwynaura Valkonian Lady Gisela’s Nightfall Vespera’s Nightfall Exile Places Entrance to Exile Gateway to Exile Exile The Room Where Chances Are Lost The Somnatorium Foxfire Foxfire The Gold Tower The Hall of Illumination The Healing Center The Silver Tower The Tutoring Center Rivers The Alenon River The Eventide River Spateswale Other Blackwater Bay Claws, Wings, Horns and Things Crooked Forest Dawnheath Troll Hive Inktide Island Moonglade Oblivymere Hall of Heroes Point of Purity Prism Peaks Siren Rock Slurps and Burps The Gloaming Valley The King’s Path The Matchmaking Office The Sanctuary The Void Tribunal Hall The Unity Fountain Wanderling Woods Neutral Territories Bosk Gorge Brackendale Merrowmarsh The Lake of Blood The Starkrial Valley The Strixian Plains The Wildwood Colony Exillium Exillium The Arch of Dividing

10 Helike: The Real-Life Atlantis

Photo credit: Drekis

Atlantis wasn’t the only mythical Greek city that sank under the water. The city of Helike met the same fate, and it shares every bit of Atlantis’s mythic power.

According to Greek myths, Helike was destroyed by the wrath of the god Poseidon. The city’s residents had driven the Ionian tribe, who were loyal worshipers of the god of the sea, out of Helike. In his fury, Poseidon pulled the whole city under the water in a single night.

Helike was destroyed in 373 BC, and for centuries, it was thought to be nothing more than parable—until it was found. In the late 1980s, two archaeologists started a quest to track it down. It took them more than a decade of work, but they found it. Over the centuries, Helike had been buried under the Earth. A mythic city was underneath their very feet.

The disaster that destroyed it, the team discovered, wasn’t exactly an act of Poseidon, but it would have felt like one. An earthquake liquefied the ground, turning the earth beneath the hapless Greeks’ feet into water as their whole city collapsed into an inland lagoon formed by the devastating tremor.

23. Great Zimbabwe[SEE MAP]

The Great Zimbabwe, is a complex of stone ruins spread out over a large area in modern-day Zimbabwe, which itself is named after the ruins. The word “Great” distinguishes the site from the many hundred small ruins, known as Zimbabwes, spread across the country. Built by indigenous Bantu people, the construction started in the 11th century and continued for over 300 years. At its peak, estimates are that Great Zimbabwe had as many as 18,000 inhabitants. Causes for the decline and ultimate abandonment of the site have been suggested as due to a decline in trade, political instability and famine and water shortages caused by climatic change.

Forbidden Cities Visited in Keeper of the Lost Cities[]

Visited by Sophie (the whole Foster family lived there), Keefe, Mr. Forkle, Fitz, Sandor, Gethen, and Alvar.

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Visited by Sophie and Tiergan during their Telepathy session at Foxfire.

Gryfino, Poland (The Crooked Forest)

Visited by Sophie, Calla, Fitz, Biana, Keefe, and Dex. Calla says she sang to the trees, which was why the trees were bent.

California’s White Mountains

Visited by Sophie, Fitz, Biana, Keefe, Dex, Della, the Collective, Calla, and a number of other gnomes.

Paris, France

Visited by Sophie, Dex, Gethen, Brant, Mr. Forkle and possibly Alvar. It was later visited by Fitz, Linh, and others.

Mt. Everest, Nepal

Visited by Sophie, Dex, Keefe, Fitz, Biana, Lady Gisela, Sandor, Mr. Forkle, and the Neverseen (Lady Gisela, dwarves, and others) when they had the battle at the end of Everblaze.

The Himalayas

Visited by anyone who has gone to the Sanctuary.

Florence, Italy

Visited by Sophie, Fitz, Keefe, Dex, Biana, Della, Mr. Forkle, possibly other members of the Black Swan, and at least one Pyrokinetic in the Neverseen, including Brant or Fintan. Most likely Brant, as Fintan usually stays where it’s safe.

Trolltunga, Norway

Visited by Sophie, Fitz, Biana, Keefe, Dex, Della, the Collective, Kesler, Edaline, Grady, Physic, Alden, Della, etc. for a Wanderling planting.

London, England

Visited by Sophie, Lady Gisela, Keefe, Fitz, and Tam. The Green Door House is located here.

San Diego, California

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Gryfino, Poland

California’s White Mountains

Paris, France

Mount Everest

The Himalayas

Florence, Italy

Trolltunga, Norway

London, England

Places

Lost Cities Cities Atlantis Eternalia Gildingham Lumenaria Marintrylla Mysterium Ravagog Serenvale Residences Candleshade Choralmere Dawnheath Everglen Fluttermont Havenfield Mistmead Rimeshire Riverdrift Shores of Solace Solreef Splendor Plains Sterling Gables Widgetmoor Hideouts Black Swan Hideouts Alluveterre Brumevale Stone House Neverseen Hideouts The Sixteen Former Hideouts Pallidrose Gwynaura Valkonian Lady Gisela’s Nightfall Vespera’s Nightfall Exile Places Entrance to Exile Gateway to Exile Exile The Room Where Chances Are Lost The Somnatorium Foxfire Foxfire The Gold Tower The Hall of Illumination The Healing Center The Silver Tower The Tutoring Center Rivers The Alenon River The Eventide River Spateswale Other Blackwater Bay Claws, Wings, Horns and Things Crooked Forest Dawnheath Troll Hive Inktide Island Moonglade Oblivymere Hall of Heroes Point of Purity Prism Peaks Siren Rock Slurps and Burps The Gloaming Valley The King’s Path The Matchmaking Office The Sanctuary The Void Tribunal Hall The Unity Fountain Wanderling Woods Neutral Territories Bosk Gorge Brackendale Merrowmarsh The Lake of Blood The Starkrial Valley The Strixian Plains The Wildwood Colony Exillium Exillium The Arch of Dividing

Vinland: where the Vikings supposedly settled in North America

Vinland, Winland, or Vineland was the name given to an area of North America apparently settled by Norse Vikings in around 1000 AD. Once thought to be a myth, a Viking settlement was actually found in in Newfoundland in the 1960’s.

Before this discovery, the story was widely dismissed as pure fantasy. Interestingly, the story also told of how the adventurers fought the locals, who they called Skraelingar.

These people, it was said, dressed in white clothes and lived in caves and holes. When they attacked, they carried long poles and let out terrifying battle cries. There is no evidence for this story, but it does appear that the Viking settlement at L’Anse Aux Meadows was used as a Viking encampment for a short time, perhaps as a base for further exploration or to gather supplies.

7 Xanadu: The Palace Of Kublai Khan

Photo credit: Zhenglan Qi Administration of Cultural Heritage of the site of Xanadu City

Marco Polo came back from China with some incredible descriptions of Kublai Khan’s empire. The most incredible of all, though, was Xanadu, the palace of the great khan.

Xanadu, Marco Polo said, was a marble palace surrounded by a massive, 26-kilometer-wide (16 mi) park filled with fountains, rivers, and wild animals. There, the khan kept 10,000 pure white horses in a golden palace guarded by dragons. It was, in short, a paradise unlike any on Earth.

The palace was destroyed by the Ming army in 1369, long before most Europeans got the chance to see it. As the centuries passed by, it slipped into legend. It was a place poets wrote about but was little more than the stuff of imagination.

Since then, though, the site of Kublai Khan’s palace has been uncovered, and we’ve found that Marco Polo wasn’t exaggerating. The khan’s home was twice as big as the White House, surrounded by a massive park that seems to have once held a wild menagerie of animals from around the world.

There are ramps for horses in every part of it, and it even has the dragons Marco Polo described. They’re statues sitting atop of pillars that have been painted yellow—but they’re posed exactly as he said they were.

Timgad was once a thriving Roman colony

, or Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi to the Romans, was once a thriving Roman colony in Algeria. It was founded by Emperor Trajan sometime around 100 AD.

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The once-lost city is located in the Aures Mountains of the region and was named in honor of Trajan’s mother Marcia. The city was abandoned after being sacked by the Vandals in the 5th century and then the Berbers in the 7th century.

It was later buried by the sands of the Sahara until its rediscovery and excavation.

Today, it is noted for being a great example of the Roman grid system town planning. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.

Затерянные города легенд

Затерянные города, которые считаются легендарными или вымышленными.

• Гай — важный город в еврейской Библии
• Артуриан Камелот
• Атлантида
• Ацтлан — прародина в ацтекской мифологии
• Сьюдад-де-лос-Сезарес (Город Цезарей, также известный как Город Патагонии, Элелин, Линь Линь, Трапаланда, Трапананда или Блуждающий город) — легендарный город в Патагонии , который так и не был найден.
• Дварака — древний город Кришны , затопленный в море.
• Эльдорадо
• Ирам Столпов — это может относиться к затерянному арабскому городу в Пустом квартале , но источники также идентифицируют его как племя или область, упомянутую в Коране.
• Китеж , Россия — легендарный подводный город, который якобы можно увидеть в хорошую погоду.
• Либертатия , Мадагаскар — (также известная как Либерталия) — пиратская колония, основанная в 17 веке капитаном пиратов Джеймсом Миссоном (иногда называемая «Миссия»), которая до сих пор оспаривается историками.
• Затерянный город Z — город, предположительно расположенный в джунглях региона Мату-Гросу в Бразилии , который, как говорят, видел британский исследователь полковник Перси Харрисон Фосетт незадолго до Первой мировой войны.
• Lyonesse
• Отукен — легендарная столица Гоктурков в тюркской мифологии
• Пайтити — легендарный город и убежище в тропических лесах, где встречаются Боливия , Бразилия и Перу.
• В семи городах золота
• Шамбала — мифическое царство, которое, как говорят, находится в Тибете.
• Содом и Гоморра
• Винета — легендарный город где-то на балтийском побережье Германии или Польши.
• Йс — легендарный город на западном побережье Франции.

То, что некоторые города считаются легендарными, не означает, что их на самом деле не существовало. Некоторые из них когда-то считались легендарными, но теперь известно, что они существовали, например, Троя и Бьярмаленд .

Çatalhöyük is almost 10,000 years old

, meaning «Fork Mound», was once a large Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, Turkey. Archaeological evidence suggests the site existed between about 7500 BC to 5700 BC.

This makes the site one of the world’s earliest urban settlements. This is impressive enough, but the inhabitants also had a very different culture from what we are used to today.

The city’s buildings commonly shared walls and more resembled a honeycomb than what we would normally think of as a city. Individual units were accessed from the roof, and family members were buried under each home’s floor.

For reasons not yet known, the site was abandoned before the Bronze Age. After that, the ‘city’ was forgotten and buried until its rediscovery in the 1950’s.

Derinkuyu underground city was used until 1923

an ancient multi-leveled underground city beneath the present-day Dernikuyu City in Turkey. The entire complex extends to a depth of around 197 feet (60 meters) and is thought to have housed around 20,000 people at its height.

It would have been a fully functional city with livestock and food stores and is the largest underground excavation in Turkey. It is one of several similar complexes across Cappadocia with some being connected together by miles of tunnels.

Derinkuyu was carved by hand into the relatively soft, sandy, volcanic rock of the region. The ‘city’ thrived throughout the Byzantine era and was used as protection by Christians from assailing Muslim Arabs during the Arab-Byzantine wars. 

This strategy proved successful and they were used again during the Mongolian incursions of the 14th Century. When the Ottomans seized the area, the city was used on and off by locals fleeing from Ottoman reign right up to 1923.

After this time, the complex was largely forgotten until its rediscovery in 1963.