Popping up in southern Greece around BCE, the Mycenaeans were known to be a powerful naval force and adept traders. How they declined is an unknown quantity, though invasion, regional earthquakes, or civil unrest. Capable of building impressive heads Moai that are attached to immense stone bodies, the Rapa Nui are better known as the Eastern Islanders.
Clearly artists and artisans of grand skill they were also capable of island hopping around treacherous waters, proving they were nimble atop the sea. The best guess as to what became of these chiselers is that they used up too many resources and had to abandon their homeland for, literally, greener pastures. The Roman Empire largely worked with the other major superpower of the time, the Indian Empire. Both these immense bodies traded heavily with the largely unknown Aksumites.
The first major empire to convert to Christianity, they had a developed alphabet, and liked to build obelisks, like the Obelisk of Axum, which stands today.
The reason this city is notable is because it is built like a hive. No roads or pathways mark the city, as has been the custom, because each home was entered by ladder or climbing hole placed in the roof.
Neolithic humans who enjoyed patterned pottery, they also would burn their entire village to the ground every 60 to 80 years. They then would build atop the ashes a new place, which would be put to the torch a few generations later.
Climate change or assimilation is decreed to be the downfall of the Cucuteni-Trypillian arsonists. Likely the same group that would later found Egypt and major civilizations in the Mesopotamia region, architects and astronomers were certainly among these early geniuses. Nearly 11, years ago, these people were creating stone circles that helped diagram the stars.
This lost civilization once thrived in modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Armenia. Although much of the ruins are under the lake, there are still remnants that can be seen by the lakes edges.
A shore temple of the lost city of Mahabalipuram in India. The sunken ruins of Mahabalipuram lie between meters below the current sea level off the coast of South Eastern India. However, when a tsunami devastated much of Asia in , it revealed that the stories of the lost civilization were true after all.
As the waters receded around meters before the tsunami hit, they pulled away silt and sand that had built up around the monuments that were until then buried at sea. Submerged for at least years, the lost city of Cleopatra has been found off the shores of Alexandria in Egypt. Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and it was thought that her city was lost to rising seas as a consequence of an earthquake and resulting tidal waves.
Pristine statues, and temples have been discovered at the site so far, many of which are in excellent condition. Statues of Isis, a sphinx, and large red granite columns, as well as foundations of a palace, are among the relics found at the site.
Around 20, objects have been located in the lost underwater city. One object recovered from the water is a 2,year-old stone figurine of Cleopatra III: a Ptolemaic queen, but depicted as the Egyptian goddess Isis and sculpted in a style that combines both Egyptian and Greek aesthetics.
Cleopatra reigned during the times of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled over Egypt from around bc to 30bc. The island of Crete is bordered by an ancient Sunken Minoan City. What was once part of the Minoan civilization, Olous is an underwater city that was once home to over 40, people. Between the 5 th and 2 nd century BC, Olous is thought to have reached its peak, making up one of around Minoan cities that thrived around ancient Crete.
Although no one knows exactly what happened to Olous, it is thought that it gradually submerged due to rising sea levels. It is interesting to note that the east coast of Crete is sinking into the sea, while the west coast is rising slowly. Crete is slowly but surely migrating west.
This natural phenomenon started around the 4 th century AD and could have been responsible for causing Olous to sink. Or is it because of climate change, disease or predators? Or did the members of this culture are simply dispersed to join other Native American tribes?
Was the fall of a meteorite was the cause of their disappearance? The civilization of Cucuteni-Trypillia had nearly 15 people — an enormous figure for the time that mysteriously disappeared from the surface of the Earth. The culture of Cucuteni-Trypillia stands out for its pottery.
They had this odd habit of burning their own villages every years before building new one on the ashes of the old. To date we have identified around 3, archaeological sites from this matriarchal society centered around a mother goddess. Their disappearance might have been cause due to drastic climate change leading to worst droughts in European history.
Other theories suggest people dispersed into various tribes. The civilization of the Indus Valley civilization is one of those huge lost civilizations that spread over an area that is now Pakistan and western India. It is one of the most important ancient civilizations. But little is known about them, mostly because nobody has ever deciphered their language. We know that the people built over a hundred towns and villages, including the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
Each had its own sewage systems and indoor sanitation. It seems that this civilization without classes and without an army excelled in astronomy and agriculture. It was also the first civilization to manufacture cotton clothes. This civilization disappeared 4, years ago and no one knew about it until the ruins were unearthed in the s.
Several theories attempt to explain this disappearance, such as changes in their environment like drying of the river Ghaggar Hakra, colder and drier temperatures. Another theory is that the Aryans invaded the region around BC. The Minoan civilization was not discovered until the early 20th century, but has since unearthed many clues about this fascinating civilization appeared that existed for about years and reached its peak around BC.
Over the course of time, the cities and palaces were built and rebuilt becoming increasingly complex. One of these was that palaces of Knossos, the labyrinth associated with the legend of King Minos from which the civilization gets its name. US Air Force Lt. This part of Antarctica [is] ice free. Conspiracists now think Hapgood was right and he discovered that much of the south pole was ice free — and also the location of The Lost City of Atlantis.
The existence of this mythical utopia was first mentioned in the writings by ancient Greek philosopher Plato in BC. The Atlantis that Plato described was founded by people who were half god and half human around 9, years before his own time.
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