"Lost South African City Discovered" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 22 Mar 2018 8:16 p.m. PST |
Archaeologists in South Africa have located the site of a centuries-old ‘lost city' using sophisticated laser technology… link |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Mar 2018 8:27 p.m. PST |
Who keeps losing these cities? They should get fired. Dan |
| goragrad | 22 Mar 2018 9:32 p.m. PST |
800 homesteads didn't initially sound like much of a city, but then 10k inhabitants is decent. |
| PrivateSnafu | 23 Mar 2018 12:35 p.m. PST |
Centuries old and they had laser technology, cool. Must be aliens. |
robert piepenbrink  | 23 Mar 2018 4:57 p.m. PST |
Dan, it all happened before the invention of the hand receipt, which is the foundation of civilization. But I'll admit to being skeptical. Cities have peripheries. They serve economic functions. Fair-size cities dwindled to villages or disappeared altogether in western Europe around the 5th Century because there was a huge shift in political and economic systems. This is not pre-history. "Latter half of the 19th Century" means Anglo-Zulu War, more or less. And no one noticed a city of 10,000 people just--what? Dying of the Piffle Plague? Packing up and moving to Botswana? Giving up the whole city thing and becoming nomads? (And in whose territory?) There's either more or less to this story than we have so far. My money would be on less. |
| nnascati | 23 Mar 2018 5:16 p.m. PST |
Yep, as soon as I see "centuries" old rather than "millenia" old, I lose interest. |
| Dynaman8789 | 24 Mar 2018 6:41 a.m. PST |
All it takes for a city to become "lost" is a shifting water supply, and that can happen in a very short period of time. |
 StoneMtnMinis | 24 Mar 2018 4:47 p.m. PST |
Remember, it takes a village to raise a city. |
| Lion in the Stars | 24 Mar 2018 5:18 p.m. PST |
And it takes an army to raze a city… |
| goragrad | 24 Mar 2018 8:52 p.m. PST |
Actually, Lion Mother Nature can do a really spectacular job of razing cities as well… |
| Bowman | 28 Mar 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
There's either more or less to this story than we have so far. My money would be on less. I agree with Robert here. Sure cities can be claimed by environmental failure, lack of potable water, the vicissitudes of Mother Nature, the sacking by an army, etc, etc. We all know cities can collapse, and sometimes quickly. But totally forgotten? A city of 10,000 inhabitants disappears 200 years ago and no one remembers that? Must be pretty unobservant neighbours. There is another embedded ink in the OP link of a discovery of a "lost city" in Kansas. link This city was visited by the Spanish over 400 years ago, and has been recorded ever since. The city was "lost" only due to errors in translation from the original documents. Quite a different story however. Even with the advent of smallpox and influenza, the city was still inhabited around 1700. |
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