🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Akhetaten (Amarna) – Abandoned Sun City
New Kingdom Amarna Period (1353–1332 BCE) · Egyptian (Atenist reform)
Akhenaten's 1346 BCE desert sun capital – 12 km planned city and 382 Amarna Letters, abandoned after one reign.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Pi-Ramses (Per-Ramses) – Qantir Vanished Metropolis
New Kingdom 19th–20th Dyn (1279–1070 BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom imperial
Ramesses II's 10 km² vanished capital – 460 chariot stables and glass factories buried under Delta fields.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Helike — Selinus Plain Early Helladic Buried Town (Boura Delta) — v2
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Lost city
Upano — Kilamope East Plateau Lidar City (Sangay / Upano Valley)
Formative to Regional Development (c.500 BCE – 800 CE) · Kilamope / Upano cultures
Upano Valley eastern plateau lidar city 12 km east of Sangay — twin platforms, 20 mounds and causeway-field grid 500 BCE–800 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Avaris – Tell el-Dab'a (Hyksos Capital)
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (c. 2000–1150 BCE; Hyksos peak 1670–1550) · Egyptian / Hyksos Canaanite / Minoan palace artisans
Hyksos capital with Minoan frescoes and donkey burials — 3 m under Delta fields, excavated since 1966.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Lost city
Llanos de Mojos — Casarabe Eastern Forest Island (Laguna San José)
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (c.500 – 1400 CE) · Casarabe culture
Casarabe eastern forest island at Laguna San José — polygonal ditch, 6 m platform and 1 km causeway under forest, 500–1400 CE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Sybaris – Thurii – Copia (Buried Tri-City)
Archaic to Roman (720 BCE – 7th c. CE) · Achaean Greek / Athenian / Roman (Bruttian interlude)
Richest Achaean colony, drowned by diverted river and then 9 m of alluvium hiding three successive cities.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Tanis (Zoan) – Djanet Lost Capital
Third Intermediate to Late (21st Dyn 1070 BCE – 7th c. BCE; reoccupied Ptolemaic/Roman) · Egyptian (Libyan dynasties) reusing New Kingdom monumental
21st Dynasty Tanis built from stolen Ramesside blocks – intact silver-coffined royal tombs under Delta silt.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa Lost Inca Capital
Neo-Inca State (1536–1572 CE) jungle capital · Inca Vilcabamba (Manco Inca)
Espíritu Pampa rediscovered by Savoy 1964, lost after 1572 Túpac Amaru execution by Toledo.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Helike — Selinus Plain Early Helladic Buried Town (Boura Delta)
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Memphis (Men-nefer) – Mit Rahina Lost Metropolis
Early Dynastic to Late Antiquity (c.3100 BCE – 641 CE Arab conquest) · Egyptian (all periods), Persian, Greek, Roman
3100 BCE 'White Walls' capital covering 8 km – now invisible under fields except Ptah temple colossus.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume (Valley of Pyramids)
Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca · Sican Lambayeque → Chimú
Túcume (Valley of Pyramids) in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca pyramid attributed to Sican Lambayeque → Chimú culture.