Founded, furnished and eventually forgotten – this has been the fate of many cities since ancient times. A few names have stayed alive in legend and literature while others disappeared completely – ...

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These lost cities are providing clues to how our ancestors existed in the world. Once powerful and populous centers of influence, these cities are now classed as ruins. All lost, one way or another, ...

The Amazon rainforest, long perceived as a pristine wilderness, is now being unveiled as a cradle of ancient garden towns. This revelation, made possible through cutting-edge scientific methods like ...

The Yale Art Gallery holds some treasures from an ancient city in Syria, where many religions flourished side by side, including a new one called Christianity. The city was attacked, abandoned, and ...

Erosion—caused by the North Sea's relentless pounding of England's east coast—had all but consumed Dunwich by 1750. Newscom Beneath the slate-gray surface of the North Sea, about a half-mile off ...

Chris Fisher, an archaeologist who recently returned from the site of a lost city, says that some of the objects there looked as if they hadn't... Explorers Discover Ancient Lost City In Honduran ...

The world's biggest religious complex, some four times the size of Vatican City, is Cambodia's Angkor Wat, built in 1150 but long lost to history. Archaeological work since the 19th century has ...