This UNESCO World Heritage Site in Colorado, USA, is famous for its remarkably preserved cliff dwellings, built by the Ancestral Puebloans between 600 and 1300 AD. Name this site.
Located on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, this large pre-Columbian city was built by the Mayan people and features the iconic El Castillo pyramid, famous for the serpent shadow on the equinox. Name this city.
This heavily fortified city in modern-day Turkey was the capital of the Hittite Empire during the Late Bronze Age. Its extensive archives of cuneiform tablets have provided crucial insights into ancient Near Eastern history. What is its name?
Once a thriving medieval port and capital of the Kingdom of East Anglia in England, much of this coastal town has been lost to the sea due to centuries of erosion. What is this 'lost city' of England?
European explorers tirelessly searched for this legendary lost city, said to be rich in gold and precious stones, deep within the Amazon rainforest of South America. What is the name of this mythical 'Lost City of Gold'?
British explorer Percy Fawcett famously disappeared in 1925 while searching for this legendary lost city, which he believed to be a grand ancient civilization deep in the Amazon jungle, referred to as 'Z.' What was the official name Fawcett gave to this hypothesized city?
Immortalized in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Kubla Khan' and known as the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty, this opulent city was described by Marco Polo. What is its name, also spelled Shangdu?
This ancient Sumerian city-state, located in modern-day Iraq, was once one of the most important centers of Mesopotamia, famous for its Great Ziggurat and as the biblical home of Abraham. Though rediscovered, it was lost for millennia. What is its name?
While entirely mythical, the concept of a technologically advanced lost city swallowed by the sea originates from the writings of which ancient Greek philosopher?
This major Pre-Columbian Mayan city in Guatemala is renowned for its iconic pyramids, including the Temple of the Grand Jaguar, which served as the burial place for which powerful Mayan ruler?