It is now thought that the city could have been built around 9,000 years ago. Many millennia later, during the 1980s, Indian scientists found the ruins of a city near to where legend described it to be.
The city was annihilated by blasts of energy never to be seen again. It forms one of the so-called Sapta Puri, or seven sacred cities, of Hinduism as was the legendary home of the God Krishna.Īccording to legend, the city was destroyed during a huge battle between Krishna and King Salva. Krishna's Sacred City of Dvārakā is another famous lost city Source: 3dman_eu/Pixabayĭvārakāis a recently rediscovered Hindu, Jainist, and Buddhist sacred city.
It was abandoned due to a combination of encroaching sand dunes and the inhabitant's own detritus. Radiocarbon dating seems to indicate that the site was occupied between 3200 BC and 2200 BC. The buildings are relatively well preserved given their age because they were protected for thousands of years under the sand. It was lost to the ages under a sand dune a great storm in 1850 re-exposed the site. Although it might be a stretch to call it a city, it is certainly a very interesting site. Skara Brae is one of Britain's best-preserved Stone Age settlements. Skara Brae was uncovered during a storm Source: August Schwerdfeger/Wikimedia Commons Helike was rediscovered in the 1980s by two archaeologists who had been searching for it for over a decade. According to ancient sources, the city disappeared in the space of just an hour or two and there were no survivors. According to Greek legend, Helike was destroyed by an enraged and vengeful Poseidon for the Helikonians’ refusal to give their renowned statue of the sea god, or even a copy of it, to Ionian Greek colonists in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).īased on accounts of ancient sources and on recent archaeology, it is believed that an earthquake in 373 BCE caused the ground beneath the entire city to liquefy. Helikecould very well be the real Atlantis. Helike: an ancient Greek city that sank Source: Drekis/Wikimedia Commons Here, we will take a look at 31 such lost, and forgotten, ancient cities, and discover, as best we can ascertain, just why they were wiped from the map.
While we may never really know the stories of many ancient and lost cities, some have been rediscovered many centuries later - often by accident. Whether they were devastated by war, natural disaster, or were victims of their own success, many once-great cities have been lost and never found.
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