Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Legends of lost cities have lured explorers into jungles, mountains and swamps for centuries, yet some of the most famous ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and buried ...

Straight out of an Indiana Jones movie, National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin is on a mission to unlock the secrets of lost cities from ancient civilizations. From the remote cave systems of Oman to ...

The legends of the Amazon rainforest have circulated for centuries. Now, though, scientists have finally discovered proof that these massive urban centers actually existed. Researchers published a new ...

British explorer Percy Fawcett was last seen in 1925 embarking on a voyage that would take him to the heart of the Amazon rainforest. After years of working as a surveyor across the region, Fawcett ...

Legend has it the ruins were the site of the "City of the Monkey God." A “were-jaguar” effigy, likely representing a combination of a human and spirit animal, is part of a still-buried ceremonial seat ...

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