Lost Cities

Explore ancient civilizations and places that have vanished from the Earth

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Angkor, also known as Yasodharapura, was the capital city of the Khmer Empire, located in present-day Cambodia. The empi...

Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with H...

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,...

Troy or Ilion was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Gree...

Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan. Famo...