Lost Cities
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People have been building cities for thousands of years. Some ancient cities like Rome, Cairo and Athens still survive. But many have disappeared.
After long studies and analysis archeologists have found some of those cities, which were lost to us since years. And now we have a great deal of knowledge about those once flourishing cities with the help of the ruins found.
Below are some of such famous cities:
Troy:
The ancient city Troy, in what is now turkey, existed about 4000 years ago and was famous in Greek legends. For many years it was commonly believed that troy was just a myth, the fertile imaginations that made hector, Helen, Achilles, Paris, Agamemnon, and Priam so famous. That changed in 1822 when Charles Mclaren discovered the citys remains
Moen-jo-Daro:
Moen-jo-Daro is the ancient city where the most impressive remains of the Indus Valley Civilization can be found. It is located 20 kilometers south of Larkana in the province of Sindh. The Indus River flows to the east, five kilometers away. Civilization here started around 3,500 BC when communities moved from the west side of the Indus to the east.
Sir John Marshall made the discovery of ruins here in 1922.
Babylon:
Famed for its gardens the ancient city of Babylon stood by the Euphrates River on an important trade route dating to the third millennium BC. Various dynasties ruled this city till the seventh century BC when Babylon withered and practically disappeared.
Carthage:
The powerful city Carthage was located on the coast of North Africa in what is now Tunisia. It was founded in about 750 BC and quickly became a trading center because of its two fine harbors. An aristocracy of nobles and wealthy merchants tightly controlled the state. There was also a small but powerful senate. The greatest weakness
There are hardly any remains of the ancient Carthage, although a few Punic cemeteries, shrines, and fortifications have been discovered.