Cappadocia city, located in central Turkey, is home to no less than 36
Some lost cities have been discovered by chance, and some were discovered after long searches. Some were known and written about in ancient times, leaving clues for modern archaeologists, linguists, and other scholars. Others were forgotten soon after their demise, and never known throughout history thereafter.
The Lost City is hidden deep in Colombia's jungle and consists of around 170 stone terraces carved into a mountain, with numerous small “plazas” and connecting “streets”. These are the remains of a city built in around 800AD, some 650 years before Peru's Machu Picchu.
Hiroshima
The nuclear explosions at the city during World War 2 wiped the entire city. Even after the worst nuclear disaster in the world, the city never ceased to exist.
Michael Heckenberger, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, has spent more than a decade researching the possibility that Fawcett's Lost City of Z was, in fact, Kuhikugu, an archaeological site located at the headwaters of the Xingu River in the Amazon Rainforest.
The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek into the rainforests and mountains of South America. But it was all wishful thinking. The "golden one" was actually not a place but a person - as recent archaeological research confirms.
One of the most famous lost cities in the world, Machu Picchu was rediscovered in 1911 by Hawaiian historian Hiram after it lay hidden for centuries above the Urubamba Valley.
The exploration of the Amazon is a multifaceted topic; strictly speaking, we can say most and possibly even all of it has been explored by humans, since populations have lived there thousands of years and constantly move about in search of new food and resources.
One of the latest major discoveries in Egypt is the discovery of a previously unknown city in Egypt called "The Dazzling Aten" or "The Rise of Aten". This ancient city was only discovered in 2020 with publications being released the following year.
Carbonate, Colorado. This ghost town is the smallest town in America—with a population of zero.
Geologists know that there are two kinds of "lost cities" underwater: those that were made by humans, and those that weren't. The latter turns out to be the case for one such city, discovered by tourists diving off the Greek island of Zakynthos in 2014.
A ghost town (deserted city or abandoned city) is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads.
Jericho, Palestine
A small city with a population of 20,000 people, Jericho, which is located in Palestine, is believed to be the oldest city in the world.
6 Lost Cities Found Underwater Around The World - Musafir.
When the Spanish Conquistadors heard these incredible tales of a city of gold they tried every means possible to find it. Ultimately though, the Spanish, and the explorers and treasure hunters who followed them, never did find the fabulous treasures of El Dorado.
Seven Cities of Cibola | National Geographic. An 1898 painting by Frederic Remington portrays Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado on his ill-fated quest in 1541 to find the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola.
El Dorado was a mythical city said to be rich with gold, first reported in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The rumoured location of El Dorado is disputed in different sources, but most commonly said to have been in South America. Many explorers and those seeking gold or fortune searched for El Dorado.
Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city. Researchers have previously proposed that Atlantis was located on the Greek island of Santorini, the Italian island of Sardinia or on Cyprus.
Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient ruins of a vast urban settlement around Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon that was abandoned some 600 years ago.
After Fawcett's presumed death in the jungle, Kuhikugu was discovered by Westerners in 1925. The site contains the ruins of an estimated twenty towns and villages in which as many as 50,000 people might once have lived.