Pictures, Photos of Lost cities
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Lost Cities Click on Links below for photo sets. A related page is Lost Cities of India.
"As a kid, when I first came across the term `lost cities,' I was mesmerized. A whole city lost? Lost? I've seen many lost cities since then but have lost none of my fascination for them. I am in Lattakia to visit another - the nearby ruins of Ugarit, the 2nd millennium BCE city credited with the first and only invention of the alphabet." [ - From The Lost City of Ugarit]
Dholavira
Lothal
Nagarjunakonda
Shravasti
Khajuraho
Sanchi
Sarnath
Rabdentse
Memphis
Thebes
LuxorTemple2.jpg (194055 bytes)
Abu Simbel
AbuSimbel2.jpg (103905 bytes)
Yebu
RuinsYebu2.jpg (95429 bytes)
Troy
The city of Priam, Paris, Hector, and the setting for Homer's Iliad
Miletus
miletus1.jpg (214655 bytes)
Priene
priene1.jpg (136339 bytes)
Didyma
didyma2.jpg (127942 bytes)
Ephesus
EphesusLibrary3.jpg (145180 bytes)
Hierapolis
Hierapolis1.jpg (126081 bytes)
Syracusa
Greek theatre at Syracuse, built around 500 BC
Agrigento
Ancient Greek settlement in southern Sicily, Plato visited several times
Ugarit
The entrance to the royal palace of this early 2nd millennium BC city which invented the only phonetic alphabet ever invented by Man (all the rest are derived from it)
Palmyra
This pink sandstone desert city was an important stop for the caravans travelling from the Mediterranean to the countries of the Gulf
Serjilla
Deserted for about 15 centuries, in Syria
Al-Bara
Al-Bara, in Syria, remained predominantly eastern Christian and the seat of a bishopric subordinate to Antioch (modern Turkey) even after the coming of Islam
Petra
The ancient city of the Nabateans in modern day Jordan
Afamia
Founded by Selucus I, a general in the army of Alexander the (not so) Great. Afamia's peak was in the 2nd century CE when it apparently boasted a population of 500,000.
Jerash
In the first century BC, Jerash, hitherto a town of 15,000 inhabitants, became part of the Roman province of Syria
Ancient Amman
Colonnade of the forum of ancient, Roman Amman
Palenque
Arguably the most spectacular Mayan ruins in all of the Americas
Uxmal
Mayan ruins of Uxmal in the Yucatan peninsula
Chichen Itza
Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula
Teotihuacan
PyramidSun.jpg (133404 bytes)
Tikal
The Mayan ruins of Tikal in the jungles of Guatemala
Machu Picchu
The prime Inca settlement of their religious elite
Cuzco
Ruins of Sacsayhuaman near Cuzco
Monte Alban
The ancient Mayan city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico
Olympia
The site of the ancient Olympics
Corinth
Ruins of the once rich city of Corinth
Delphi
At least as old as Homer's poems, this was the most sacred place of the ancient Greeks
Epidauros
Best preserved theatre of ancient Greece
Mycenae
The castle of Agamamnon, the leader of the combined Greek forces against Troy, 1200 BC
Mystras
Ruins of the once most powerful Byzantine city on the Peloponnese
Sparta
Desolate ruins of the Acropolis of Sparta amid Olive groves
Athens
Parthenon1.jpg (136438 bytes)
Badami
Ajanta
Cave 2, The Nativity of the Buddha
Ellora
Mamallapuram
Vijayanagar
Almora
In the Kumaon region of Uttaranchal
Udaigiri Caves
Bhojpur
Rajgir
Nalanda
Patna
Ancient Xi'an
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