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Lost Cities
This page lists the lost cities or mythical or historical, missing after a fatal decline, war or disaster. The adjective in this expression means lost places that no longer exist as cities, their location is known or unknown.
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Categories of lost cities
In the popular imagination, the lost cities of the settlements were prosperous and well populated. Lost cities generally fall into three historical broad categories:
- Their disappearance was so complete that no knowledge of the town remained until rediscovered.
- Their location has been lost, but their memory has been maintained through myths and legends.
- Their existence and location have always been known, but they are no longer inhabited.
Africa
- Ancient Egypt :
- Akhetaten - capital during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten , the XIV centuryBC. AD , during the eighteenth dynasty. The city was virtually abandoned and destroyed after his death. The modern Egyptian city El Amarna was built at its approximate location.
- Avaris - capital of the Hyksos in the Nile Delta , following their conquest of ancient Egypt.
- Canopus - ancient city located on a branch of the now dried up the Nile , east of Alexandria. The modern city of Abu Qir is located nearby.
- Iti-tawi - capital during the Twelfth Dynasty. Its exact location is unknown, but assumed that it extended near the present city of Lisht.
- Memphis - former administrative capital of Lower Egypt.
- Tanis - capital of Egypt during the twenty-first and Twenty-second dynasties , located in the Nile Delta.
- North Africa:
- Carthage - originally a city Phoenician , which was destroyed by Rome during the Punic wars , then rebuilt. Later capital of Vandal kingdom in North Africa. Reconquered by the Byzantine Empire , it will decline after the Arab conquest and the founding of Tunis.
- Dougga - capital of Numidia , in present Tunisia , an ally of Rome against Carthage at the end of the Punic Wars.
- Leptis Magna - City Roman situated in what is now Libya. Birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus who undertook major work, including the diversion of a river nearby. This river was later adopted by his previous course, burying much of the city under mud and sand.
- Volubilis - Cite Roman situated in present Morocco. Its ruins, which include mosaics and a triumphal arch, are visible in the region of Meknes , near the holy city of Moulay Idriss , and served as sets for films such as The Last Temptation of Christ of Martin Scorsese. It was built around AD 40 to control the area of the western Maghreb (former Mauretania ), which was then inhabited by Greeks, Berbers, Jews and Carthaginian merchants.
- Chella - Roman city that Moroccan kings have occupied a few centuries ago. It is regularly visited by tourists in Rabat in Morocco. Very briefly, there is still water pipes and steam rooms roman an Arab mosque. There are storks.
- Others:
- Great Zimbabwe - the name given to the ruins of a city located in what is now Zimbabwe , the capital of the Empire Monomotapa that extended to Mozambique in the fifteenth century.
- Meroe - the capital of a kingdom Nubian.
- Lost City of the Kalahari - Enigma of the exploration history and archeology.
Asia
Middle East
- City-states of Mesopotamia :
- Akkadi :
- Akkad - capital of the first empire of Mesopotamia ( Akkad Empire ), between XXII and XXVIII centuries BC. BC, whose exact location is still not determined.
- Babylon - the capital XXVIII centuryBC. AD
- Isin
- Husband
- Urkesh
- Assyria :
- Sumer :
- Other cities of Mesopotamia:
- Ctesiphon - capital of the Parthian Empire , near modern Baghdad
- Suse - capital of the Empire Elamite
- Washshukanni - capital of the empire of Mitanni
- Akkadi :
- Other cities:
- atalhyk - settlement site Neolithic dating back to 7500 BC. AD, located in Anatolia
- Hangmatana - capital of the Medes , current Ecbatana in Iran
- Hattusa - capital of the Hittites. Located near the present village of Boazky in central-northern Turkey
- Persepolis - the ancient capital of the Persian Empire.
- Troy - ancient town on the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea , destroyed and rebuilt nine times between the third millennium BC. BC and fourth century
- Iram , The City of Thousand Pillars, sometimes called Ubar - ruins south of the Arabian desert (now Oman ), mentioned in the Quran and ancient tablets blates
Central Asia
- Cities of the ancient civilization of the Indus Valley :
- Cities in the Taklamakan desert on the ancient Silk Road :
East Asia
Southeast Asia
America
North American Cities
Incan Cities
Mayan Cities
Other cities in Central America or South
Europe
- Akrotiri - located on the island of Thera (Santorini), an important port between 2000 and 1650 BC. AD destroyed in the explosion of the island during eruption of the volcano which was.
- Alesia
- Knossos - the capital of Crete during the Minoan civilization.
- Dunwich - English port big enough, nibbled away by the sea and that there remains a small village now.
- Mycenae - quoted Greek in the Peloponnese.
- Numancia - City Celtiberian destroyed by the Romans - 133.
- Pompeii , Herculaneum and Stabiae - located in the Bay of Naples in Italy , buried in 79 by the eruption of Vesuvius.
- Rungholt - coastal city of northern Germany. She was swallowed by the sea during a storm January 16, 1362.
- Turp - Capital probable civilization Tartessos , on the southwest coast of Spain , circa 1000 BC. AD
- Ys ys or the city, the legendary city of Brittany, who is alleged to have been built in the Douarnenez bay or off it, then swallowed by the ocean.
Oceania
- Malden island - atoll of the Republic of Kiribati. Uninhabited when discovered in 1825, it bore the traces of ancient occupation (ditto Henderson in the archipelago Pitcairn ).
- Nan Madol - a series of artificial islands near the island of Pohnpei , Federated States of Micronesia , the ancient capital of the dynasty Saudeleurs until XVI century.
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