The top ten lost cities in the world were once prosperous and finally declined.

The lost city is an uninhabited city, and its position has been forgotten. Searching for such a lost city has attracted explorers and adventurers, and since the15th century, it has promoted the development of archaeology. A lost city should not be confused with a ghost town. The locations of cities that have been abandoned recently because of different environments are well known.

10. Atlantis is one of the top ten unsolved mysteries in the world, and historians almost agree that it never existed. In Plato's works, Atlantis is mentioned in a fable. In this fable, Atlantis finally sank into the Atlantic Ocean. Although most people think that this city never existed, some people are still looking for the remains of the most famous lost city in history.

9. Troy For centuries, Troy has been regarded as a legend, a city that has never really existed outside Homer's epic. This legend was not proved to be true until the 1960s in 19, when it was first excavated in the northwest of Anatolia.

8. palenque, palenque, located in the southern part of Mexico today, is a Mayan city. Prosperity in the 7th century, decline in the 8th century, covered by dense jungle, forgotten by time. In the19th century, people became interested in this site again. Later, the city was excavated and restored, and now many tourists come here every year.

7. Tiwanaco Tiwanaco, located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, was an important area in the South Andes between the 7th and 9th centuries. Around AD 1000, climate change made Tiwanaku unable to continue to produce food, leading to the decline and abandonment of the city.

6. Teotihuacan Teotihuacan is one of the top ten tourist attractions in Mexico. The city is covered with pyramids and covers an area of about 20 square kilometers. It is a huge city center, inhabited by about 6,543,800 people, which was destroyed and abandoned about 654.38+ 0.400 years ago.

5. Tikasikar is an ancient city of Mayan civilization, located in a rainforest in Guatemala. As the capital of a powerful kingdom, the city flourished until it was conquered by Teotihuacan in the 4th century. After being conquered, it gradually declined until it was completely abandoned at the end of 10.

4. Petra Petra is the ancient capital of Nabatai Kingdom. This city may have been established as early as 3 12 BC and flourished for a long time, because it is an important hub connecting the Silk Road and the Spice Road between the East and the West. After a series of earthquakes, the city gradually declined and was finally abandoned in the 6th century.

3. The ancient city of Pompeii In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the two cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Residents of these cities either fled or were buried in the cities. In the18th century, they were rediscovered during excavation. Today, as a tourist attraction, the ancient city of Pompeii allows people to have a glimpse of the past.

2. Angkor Angkor was a prosperous city from the 9th century to15th century. /kloc-in the 0/5th century, cities declined and were invaded and looted. The city was almost completely abandoned and forgotten until 1860. Now Angkor Wat is the most famous historic site in Cambodia and the place with the most tourists.

1. Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is one of the top ten cultural heritages in the world. This is a site built in15th century. It is located on the mountain at an altitude of 2430 meters about 80 kilometers northwest of Cuzco. Machu Picchu is the most visited place in Peru.