Lost Ancient Cities Found by Accident

Lost Ancient Cities Found by Accident Cities are hard to lose. They are huge, they sit beside rivers and roads, and thousands of people remember where they stand. Yet history is full of cities that disappeared so completely that nobody alive even knew they had existed. And when those cities came back, it was rarely because of a grand expedition. It was a worker digging a well, a quarryman cutting stone, a farmer clearing a field, or a thief hunting for gold. In this video, ten lost ancient cities and the strange stories of how they were found. In this video: Thonis-Heracleion, the Egyptian port that slid into the sea and was found on the seabed Akrotiri on Santorini, a Bronze Age town buried by a volcano and uncovered by cement workers Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus civilization whose script nobody can read Ciudad Perdida in Colombia, found by treasure hunters Sanxingdui in China and its bronze masks with tube-shaped eyes Derinkuyu, the underground city discovered behind a house wall Herculaneum and the burned scrolls that were read with scans and AI Machu Picchu, the Inca estate that locals always knew about Göbekli Tepe, the 11,000-year-old temple built before farming Pompeii, the frozen Roman town and the plaster casts CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:33 #10 Thonis-Heracleion 1:57 #9 Akrotiri 3:15 #8 Mohenjo-daro 4:34 #7 Ciudad Perdida 5:37 #6 Sanxingdui 6:44 #5 Derinkuyu 7:53 #4 Herculaneum 9:05 #3 Machu Picchu 10:09 #2 Göbekli Tepe 11:29 #1 Pompeii 12:49 Why cities get lost