Cité lost

This page lists the quoted lost either mythical, or historical, disappeared following a fatal decline, of a war or a catastrophe. The adjective lost indicates in this expression of the places which do not exist any more as a quoted , that them localization is known or unknown.

Categories of lost cities

In popular imagination, the lost cities were prosperous and well populated places of dwelling. The historical lost cities are generally included in three broad categories:
  • Their disappearance was so complete that no knowledge of the city remained until their redécouverte.
  • Their localization was lost, but their memory was maintained thanks to myths and legends.
  • Their existence and their localization were always known, but they are not inhabited any more.

Africa

  • ancient Egypt:
    • Akhetaton - capital during the reign of the Pharaon Akhénaton, with, during the XVIII {{E}} dynasty. The city was given up and almost destroyed after its death. The modern Egyptian city El Amarna is built on its approximate site.
    • Avaris - capital of the Hyksos in the delta of the the Nile, after their conquest of the ancient Egypt.
    • Canope - old city located on a drained branch from now on the Nile, in the east of Alexandria. The modern city of Aboukir is located not far.
    • Iti-tawi - capital during the XII {{E}} dynasty. Its exact site is not known, but it is supposed that it extended close to the current town of Lisht.
    • Memphis - old administrative capital of Low-Egypt.
    • Tanis - capital of Egypt during the XXI {{E}} and XXII {{E}} dynasties, located in the delta of the the Nile.

  • North Africa:

    • Carthage - in the beginning a city phenician, destroyed by Rome at the time of the Punic Wars, then rebuilt. Later capital of the kingdom vandal in North Africa. Destroyed finally by the Byzantine Empire.
    • Dougga - capital of Numidie, in current the Tunisia, allied of Rome against Carthage at the end the Punic Wars.
    • Leptis Magna - Roman city located in current the Libya. Birthplace of the Severe emperor Septime which undertook important work there, including the diversion of the bed of a close river. This river took again its preceding course later, burying most of the city under the mud and sand.
    • Volubilis - Roman City located in current Morocco. Its ruins, which include/understand in particular mosaics and a triumphal arch, are visible in the area of Meknès, near the Holy City of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, and were used as decorations with films, such as the Last Temptation of Christ of Martin Scorsese. She was built about year 40 to control the area of the Western Maghreb (old Maurétanie), which was then populated by Greeks, Berbères, Jewish and commercial Carthaginian.
    • Chella - Roman city that Moroccan kings occupied a few centuries ago. She is regularly visited by the tourists with Rabat with the Morocco. Very briefly, one still finds there water the pipelines of the Roman hammams and an Arab mosque. Storks there are found.

  • Others:

    • Large Zimbabwe - name given to the ruins of a city located in current the Zimbabwe, capital of the Empire Monomotapa which extended until the Mozambique at the 15th century.
    • Méroé - capital of a Nubian kingdom .

Asia

Near and the Middle East

  • City-states of Mésopotamie:
    • Akkadie :
      • Akkad - capital of the first empire of Mésopotamie (Empire of Akkad), between XXIIe and XXVIIIe front centuries J. - C., whose exact site is still not given.
      • Babylon - capital with the
      • Isin
      • Husband
      • Urkesh
    • Assyrie:
    • Sumer :
    • Other towns of Mésopotamie:
      • Ctésiphon - capital of the Parthian Empire, close to current the Baghdad.
      • Suse - capital of the empire élam ite.
      • Washshukanni - capital of the empire of the Mitanni
  • Other cities:
    • Çatalhöyük - Neolithic site of settlement tonic at 7.500 years front J. - C., located in Anatolia.
    • Hangmatana - capital of the Mèdes, current Ecbatane in Iran
    • Hattusa - capital of the Hittites. Located close to the current village of Boğazköy, in the center-north of the Turkey.
    • Persépolis - old capital of the Persian Empire.
    • Troy - old city located on the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea, destroyed and rebuilt nine times enters it and the 4th century.

Central Asia

  • Cities located in the Deserted of Taklamakan on old the Silk route:

Southeast Asia

America

American cities north

INCA cities

Cities Maya

Other cities of Central America or the south

  • Teotihuacan
  • Tiahuanaco

Europe

  • Akrotiri - located on the island of Thera, in the Greek archipelago of Santorin, important port between 2.000 and 1 650 av. J. - C. Destroyed during the explosion of the island during an eruption of the volcano which constituted it.
  • Alésia
  • Cnossos - capital of the Crete during Minoan civilization.
  • Dunwich - rather important English port, corroded little by little by the sea and of which there remains from now on only one small village.
  • Mycènes - Greek city of the Peloponnese.
  • Numance - city Celtibère destroyed by the Romans in - 133.
  • Pompéi, Herculanum and Stabies - located in bay of Naples in Italy, buried into 79 by the eruption of the Vesuvius.
  • Rungholt - coastal town of the north of the Germany. It was absorbed by the sea at the time of a storm on January 16th, 1362.
  • Turpa - capital probable of the civilization of Tartessos, on the south-western coast of the Spain, towards 1.000 front J. - C.

Oceania

  • Island Malden - atoll of the republic of the Kiribati. Uninhabited at the time of its discovery in 1825, it carried the traces of an old occupation (idem Henderson in the archipelago Pitcairn).
  • Nan Madol - series of artificial islands, close to the island of Ponape, Federated States of Micronesia, old capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until the 16th century.

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