The long-lost city, a possible inspiration for the tale of Atlantis, had appeared once more. Excavations continue to this day. El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, drove many European conquerors ...

The National Geographic Society sent a photographer ... Archaeologists, however, no longer believe in the existence of a single “lost city,” or Ciudad Blanca, as described in the legends.

according to a paper published today in Nature and based on research funded by the National Geographic Society. “Lidar showed us that there’s a massive city there, hiding in plain sight ...

Archaeologists believe the city was destroyed in the second century B.C., when the land beneath it liquefied. Lost cities sunken beneath the waves are not just myths. Many coastal communities were ...

photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic Byzantine floor mosaics are found in the remains of the Petra Church. An earthquake in A.D. 363 leveled many of the city’s buildings.

When the Spanish first ventured into the Amazon Basin in the 1540s, they recorded Indigenous accounts of a lost city of fantastic ... for Z is kept in Brazil’s National Library.

(The National Geographic Society helped fund Bingham on excursions to Machu Picchu in 1912 and 1915.) Bingham believed he had found Vilcabamba, the so-called Lost City of the Inca where the last ...