Five Lost Cities That Could Still Be Discovered Today

[@AncientAmericas]

One ancient Maya site that is still unconfirmed is the site Sak Tz'i'. Ancient Mayan records note it and a tentative identification has been made but it's still unresolved.

[@darthJ9]

Marvel crossover moment

[@Prodigi50]

@@darthJ9 Avengers of History, assemble!

[@bobjoe7508]

Holy crap, two of the absolute best KZbin historians! We need a colab video!

[@chungusdisciple9917]

Wow you're back with a vengeance. Awesome seeing your stuff in my feed again. Cheers man!

[@darthJ9]

I love how he has basically no outro he speaks facts and then just stops when he's done 😂

[@herobrinesblog]

1:05 Abaskun 2:40 Kubar 3:15 Acerrae Vatriae 3:55 Wassukani 5:15 Akkad

[@danielwallace1759]

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[@TheFallofRome]

Thank you!!

[@pumaconcolor2855]

When Pliny the elder talks about Umbria it means the regio Vi of the 11 in which Italy was divided at the time. That Umbria has different borders than the ones of the modern administrative region Umbria (the one shown in the video), even though the two overlap to some extent. Congrats on 100k subs, glad to see you back!

[@annayosh]

My favorite still-lost city is Tartessos in southern Spain. It was a rich trading city with influence over the region, but was destroyed by the Carthiginians, who took over its rule from nearby Gades, current-day Cadíz.

[@NoIce33]

My favourite is Itj-tawy, the capital of Egypt during most of the Middle Kingdom. Amazingly, its location is even known with a few km precision, but still nothing has come up. It probably was pretty small, though; perhaps little more than a palace.

[@larsrons7937]

In 1992 we did an expedition into the otherwise off limit 'Manu' National Park in southern Peru's jungle. Our primary objective was to investigate the location eight pyramid-like structures, arranged in two parallel lines and believed to be a possible lost city, that had been spotted on satellite photos years earlier. One of our members fell ill and we had to return to civilisation before reaching the location. Four years later, in 1996 American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian finally reached the location noly to conclude, that the 'pyramids' were merely natural rock formations without any signs of human activity anywhere. So, after all, no lost city. It was, however, the first visit to the site (except for the local Indians, naturally!!!) and could have been us four years earlier.

[@dingchavez09]

Nice! Silver play button inbound!

[@pax6833]

The fact that Akkad is missing is kind of mindblowing, you'd think it'd be easier to find the ancient capital of an *empire*. It's also sobering to think of just how many ancient mesopotamian cities were abandoned to the desert over time.

[@equinoxomega3600]

Concerning Abaskun: Something I find a bit confusing in the description is that it is one the hand said to be at shores of the Caspian Sea, but then got flooded by a change in the over Oxos. However, the Oxus (modern name Amu Darya) flows into the Aral Sea and not the Caspian Sea. So either Mustafi was referring to a different river or the Caspian Sea location is wrong and one needs to look for it near the (now essentially dried up) delta of the Amu Darya in the former Aral Sea.

[@chriswatson7965]

From what I can find out the Amu Daryu did flow to the Caspian Sea between 1220 and 1575 via a river called Uzboy and via Sarygamysh Lake. The trigger for this change is claimed to be the destruction of the Gurgānj Dam by Genghis Khan.

[@cmaven4762]

​@@chriswatson7965Yes... Was about to comment on this. I'd be looking in the area of that lake, TBH.

[@larsrons7937]

_CONGRATULATIONS_ on the 100,000 subscribers. Well deserved.

[@danukil7703]

Oh, you are spoiling us with your barrage of videos! Thank you very much :)

[@paulwilson3057]

Agree with a lotta folks here. You're spoiling us all after a long absence. Guess you had some ideas marinating when you got back. I can't complain. 😆

[@lobstereleven4610]

loving these more frequent uploads! thanks!

[@someoneoutthere1866]

Very informative! Glad you didn't take the AI plunge :)

[@nilsjonsson1133]

Oh my god he did it! Congrats on 100k! Hands down the best history channel on youtube.

[@andychap6283]

Love the recent content - really appreciate your channel man

[@ellohihi]

Wow great channel/videos I’ve already watched about 4 and just subbed! Idk how you decide to make videos but I’m reading “The Customs of Cambodia” by Zhou Daguan, (Ankor Empire). Could be an interesting area to talk about in the future!

[@cyberiansailor9741]

Congrats on 100k subscribers!

[@robbabcock_]

It would be great to find any of these lost cities!

[@19920607atanqing]

The first national capital and seat of first two dynasty of Egypt, Thinis, is still unkown its location yet. Although most scholars believed it is buried somewhere not far from Abydoss.

[@dartmart9263]

Perhaps some Median cities? LOL

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

Math dad joke lol

[@lambert801]

I think some viewers misunderstood the previous video. Medians as an ethnicity did without a doubt exist-we simply do not think they had an empire. Since no extensive archeological projects have been carried out in Iran since 1980, there is much that is hidden under ground.

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

@@lambert801 i know about the proto iranian peoples. I thought he was making a word play lol

[@dartmart9263]

@@lambert801 Exactly. Absence of evidence (yet) is not evidence of absence. When the current regime falls, as all regimes do eventually, I really hope that things will be made clearer. Critics will never apologize or admit they were wrong, of course.

[@johnbeans2000]

I know the locations, I have consulted my crystals and if you want the coordinates I might allow it.

[@someoneoutthere1866]

[@jaif7327]

happy 100k bro well deserved

[@thepath964]

My great grandfather grew up in a small town in southern Virginia called Kabouchy. This was in the 1920s and 1930s. But when he tried to go back to his hometown as an adult in the 1940s, the town wasn't there. There was no trace of it, nor of any of his many relatives and friends. He spent the next four decades of his life searching for his hometown and his family, but the only thing he ever found was a portion of the town's welcome sign and the half-eaten femur bone of his grandfather. Now that is a lost city!

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Fascinating. New subscriber. Hello from Mobile Alabama.

[@TheFallofRome]

@@jenniferbreaux7385 hello from Albany, NY!

[@historiverserevealed]

I am always interested in learning more about the lost cities.

[@Andarion00]

Our favorite Historian is back in FORCE

[@armisteadab]

Glad to see the return of this creator to scholarly KZbin

[@A3Kr0n]

100K awesome!

[@lezardvaleth2304]

BABE WAKE UP NEW HISTORIAN'S CRAFT DROPPED

[@carlpeterson8279]

I just handed the boss my resignation so I can search for these cities

[@williamharris8367]

Is there any sense of how large these lost cities were, either in terms of population or physical size? That would have an impact on how easily they could disappear. There are a handful of former settlements around here, mostly from the late-1800s, of which only minimal traces still exist, but all of them were just large villages or small towns -- not urban areas in the modern sense.

[@YouandLife5.0]

04:32 The city of Wuki vanished without a trace, but could it be hidden right under our feet? 🌍 Decades of excavation, yet still no answers… or are we just not looking in the right place? 👀

[@Aninkovsky]

Please make video about the famous Port City of Barus

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

nice, very nice.

[@qboxer]

Lidar is the key to this! Really an incredible technology.

[@SkyFly19853]

That intro screen looks like 4 elements from Alchemy... 😏

[@VanBurenOfficial]

Burbank, Van Nuys, Encino, found cities, but will they remain that way?

[@kamilkardel2792]

Veligrad, the capital of the Great Moravian state. Czerwień/Cherven, the center of the region that Poland and Rus struggled for in the 10th and 11th century.

[@miketacos9034]

It’s crazy we know so much about the Akkadian Empire even though we’ve never found the original city itself.

[@NicolasTheondine]

If it was made of Adobe bricks, it needed a lot of work to last. A relatively short period of neglect can lead to its destruction right down to the ground...

[@Usernanm]

Great video has any ever said you sound like a well read Homer Simpson

[@TheFallofRome]

Normally it’s Sam the Eagle, not Homer!

[@lordmalal]

I always assumed Akkad actually was just an older name for Babylon .

[@cyberiansailor9741]

Same here

[@cmaven4762]

No, it was actually a different entity. There's quite a bit of information about it here on KZbin.

[@Sp4mMe]

I have high hopes that the ancient lost city of Bielefeld might be found one day.

[@phishENchimps]

Like the Kingdom of Saguenay

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Minor correction: Akkad was likely abandoned during the Gutian Wars along with all other cities and due to the shifting rivers Babylon was built and Akkadians started calling themselves Assyrians.

[@DD-nu8jt]

100k 🎉

[@nerva-]

What, no Tartessos?

[@TheFallofRome]

@@nerva- shhh, that video is halfway finished

[@nerva-]

@@TheFallofRome I really hope they find it in my lifetime - I think it's the basis for Plato's Atlantis myth, in the same way Gotham City has never existed... but is also New York, or how Arrakis is science-fiction, but also Arabia during the life of Muhammad. The Roman city of Italica near Seville seems like the most likely location for Tartessos (prior to the gulf silting-up and it becoming an inland rather than coastal location) - a spooky parallel to how classical Ilion was built on the same hill as Troy - prime real estate is all about location, location, location.

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

Damm I was hoping you’d cover lost cities from the Americas

[@TheFallofRome]

There’s gonna be a few of these. There are a lot of lost cities, especially in the Amazon

[@glandhound]

I lost my wedding ring.

[@TheFallofRome]

Me too. So did my wife lmao

[@ryanb9749]

Molten silver? Humans are savage.

[@codymoon7552]

This, however, could be not true. The pouring of molten gold/silver down the throats of those who have been deemed greedy has been a literary trope since early antiquity

[@stupidminotaur9735]

o7

[@user-ik4xq9hm1x]

Only a few seconds in and a glimpse at the title of your channel tells me you have no clue what you’re talking about and evidently have history confused with dungeons and dragons

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[@RYOkEkEN]

@@TheFallofRome ha! third 😇