Buried by time, these lost cities were consigned to the realm of legend — until their locations were finally rediscovered.
Andrew Hyde / FlickrThe lost city of Santa Marta , Columbia .
The precise locations of many lost cities from chronicle are long forgotten .
Some city became lost due to innate catastrophe , war , or economical upheaval . However , others are lost with few cue leading to the cause of their decline . Yet others still are only the products of myth or legend .
Andrew Hyde/FlickrThe lost city of Santa Marta, Columbia.
European explorers research for such lost cities in the fifteenth century finally result to the app of innovative archaeological technique . Many antecedently lose metropolis have been rediscover thanks to these scientist and adventurers .
Lost Cities Of The World: Machu Picchu, Peru
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Machu Picchuis the confused city of the Incas , locate luxuriously atop a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley .
in the beginning inhabited in the 15th and sixteenth century , archaeologist conceive that the mountain estate was built for the Incan emperor , Pachacuti . However , it was abandon because of the Spanish Conquest who curb the last Inca stronghold in 1572 .
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The Spanish conquistadors also likely spread smallpox to theresidents of Machu Picchu , further lead to its lost city condition . The actual ruins were technically hear in 1911 by American historiographer Hiram Bingham , though he was plausibly not the first to see them — missionary were .
Good Free PhotosSteps up a mountain in Machu Picchu .
Good Free PhotosSteps up a mountain in Machu Picchu.
