Lost cities / archaeology / ancient history

I found this interesting:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/apr/30/neanderthals-not-less-intelligent-humans-scientists

Good article.
So the friendly humans took them in, what a lovely bunch.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/15/girl-remains-cave-origins-first-americans-skeleton

Fascinating.

A different kind of 'lost city':

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/02/the-tragedy-of-tampico-mexico-a-city-of-violence-abandoned-to-the-trees

Obviously not really 'lost', as plenty of people still live there, and I'm sure the selection of photographs is unrepresentative, but I still find the process of urban decay extremely intriguing. It may even be somewhat similar to Detroit.

Bit more recent...

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/06/20/tunnel-vision-254202.html

Poor fucker.

nice article i read yesterday about an abondoned island city just off the coast of japan
people left and nature took over
can't remember where i saw it now

ah yes

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/asia/hashima-the-japanese-island-that-time-forgot-9534208.html

^ last three links have been fascinating. Especially the one about the train. Must be frustrating for the poor guy.

More contemporary loss ...

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/19/-sp-death-of-the-american-shopping-mall

Reminds me of this:

Dixie Square Mall Tour - YouTube

The Blues Brothers- Mall Scene High Quality - YouTube

Someone also did this:

the bluesmobile ride thru of dixie square mall - YouTube

Grisly:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/14/13000-year-old-skeletons-war-dead-british-museum

Check out this by-mistake-made urban green reservation : http://www.igloo.ro/articole/groapa-vacaresti-sau-parcul-delta-al-bucurestiului--2/
Cool to check it out if anyone travels to Bucharest !

Considering that few *on here* are good at Romanian, you'd have to enlighten us as to the relevance of this undoubtedly very nice urban green reservation to this thread. :) Is it on an ancient site?

THE LOST CITY OF HERACLEION DISCOVERED!

{via a facebook newsfeed post from The Mind Unleashed !}

Tre’r Ceiri, Wales.

Rocks from the walls and houses scattered down the hillside.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/08/cave-art-indonesia-sulawesi

I have a question that perhaps one of you history buffs can help me with.

I basically have a vague memory of something that I need reminding the details of. Ok, so I remember hearing a story about some boy savant type (who was also a emperor/prince etc) somewhere in the east... someplace like India or China many hundreds of years ago. It was a place which did not have knowledge of a modern mathematical system. But some vistor from another country gifted him a mathematics book. And a short time later, not only had this boy developed a full understanding of the modern mathematics of the era but also come up with a whole bunch of innovations.

That is all I remember, and it maybe nonsense. But if anyone knows of a vaguely similar story in history, link me.

Thanks.

I know it's not quite up there with genocide, but the news currently coming out about ISIS' iconoclasm is deeply depressing. :(

Perhaps it's all of one piece ... killing living people and dead people all over again ...

The 'Prison of Solomon', a hollow mountain with an 80m-deep volcanic crater.

http://www.trekearth.com/viewphotos.php?l=3&p=941277

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=36.614692,47.201396&spn=0.004056,0.006899&sll=51.539929,-0.049782&sspn=0.107408,0.220757&t=h&z=17

Close to Takht-e Soleymān:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takht-e_Soleym%C4%81n

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=36.604616,47.235031&spn=0.004057,0.006899&sll=51.539929,-0.049782&sspn=0.107408,0.220757&t=h&z=17

A fascinating ancient landscape.

More on the mindless destruction of priceless cultural history:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/islamic-state-isis-crimes-against-culture-iraq-syria

Folk here may be interested to read my mate's site http://uncoveredhistory.com/

That's a lovely site! Thanks.

Another bump for uncoveredhistory.com. Well worth looking at. Great photos, original content, a real labour of love.