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CategoriesAncient cities
Capitals, ports and metropolises that rose, fell and were found again.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Mauretanian capital briefly → Roman colony Julia Valentia Banasa 33 BCE · Mauretanian Bocchus → Roman colony
Banasa excavated by Thouvenot 1930s, Tabula Banasitana 177 CE citizenship tablet for Zegrenses.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Claimed 9600 BCE (Nuragic 1800 BCE) · Nuragic / Plato forced
Frau Campidano 3000×2000 stades claimed Atlantis plain — Nuragic villages not concentric city
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Claimed 1539 forest resource not city · Spanish resource / Omagua
Gonzalo Pizarro 1539 cinnamon forest east of Andes — sparse not city, triggers Amazon descent
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Claimed Tartessic Bronze 1000 BCE (rectangle sand ridge Holocene) · Tartessic / Spectral artefact
Huelva shelf Tartessos variant of Doñana rectangle — Hinojos cores show sand ridge not city
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Inca Late Horizon to Colonial legend (1532–1600s) · Inca / Spanish colonial
Inca refuge city east of Andes — Spanish 1600s to modern satellite hunt found no grid
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Claimed Postclassic 1000 CE (real earthwork 500–1000) · Moskito pre-Columbian / Morde myth
Honduras Mosquitia lidar 2015 reveals mound lattice but not white marble metropolis
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pre-Harappan to Late Harappan (2800–1500 BCE) · Harappan
Banawali excavated by Bisht 1973–, with barracks and seal of unicorn.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chimú (1200–1470) before Inca 1470 remodel Inca-Chimú style palace hybrid · Chimú → Inca hybrid 1470 Inca administrative refacing
Farfan Mackey & Klymyshyn 1970s Chimu north palaces with Inca hybrid.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Hellenistic Berenice 246 BCE Ptolemy III → Roman to Arab 642 CE · Hellenistic Berenice (Benghazi) port
Berenice excavated by Lloyd 1960s Benghazi grid.
