A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the
Agustín Lizárraga rediscovered the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1902.
Ruins of Ciudad Perdida, a city built by the Tayrona in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
The Roman ruins of Timgad
The ruins of Vijayanagara were brought to light in the early 19th century by Colin Mackenzie.
Lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, but have since disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena.
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Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias