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Lost Cities
- JSno 12y agoalways want to go machu picchu
- dblotsky 12y agoMade me think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cities.
- fredley 12y agoVijayanagara is better known as Hampi, and it is amazing, the picture doesn't do it justice. The whole city was carved out of enormous boulders, which make up most of the surrounding landscape. It is incredible to behold the scale of it. Highlights include a camera obscura, elephant stables, a water-cooled palace, a tuned 'musical temple' and miles upon miles of grand, ruined streets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara
- anti-shill 12y agolook upon my works, ye mighty, and despair....
- twic 12y agoSic transit gloria mundi.
- davedx 12y ago"Like sands through the hourglass..."
- legulere 12y ago> Because there were no trees on the island, furniture had to be made of stone and thus also survived. Kind of makes me think how they cooked? Also in other regions where there is no wood available like in Petra.
- ecdavis 12y agoThat's a very good question, and I'm also quite curious. A quick look at the Wikipedia article for Skara Brae mentions that pottery, flint and ashes have been found at the site which certainly suggests they had fire. What other fuel sources could they have used?
- mc32 12y agoMaybe they didn't have durable woods but had access to shrubs and seaweed, possibly flotsam as sources of organic fuels? Perh guano as well?
- simcop2387 12y agoI'm not sure what they could have used that would leave behind ashes but it is possible to use animal fat as a fuel source. If you could get enough there to be useful I'm not sure though.
- DanBC 12y agosome people in the developing world use animal dung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_animal_dung_fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_animal_dung_fuel (This isn't a good article. I'm going to try editing it over the next couple of days.)
- arethuza 12y agoI'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they used dried seaweed and dried animal dung. Maybe peat as well - it's still a fairly common fuel in the wilder parts of Scotland. Skara Brae is in an amazing part of the world for neolithic monuments - Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and lots of others. Edit: The Viking graffiti in Maeshowe is pretty special too...
- kaybe 11y agoIt is 16km to the coast of Scotland. While probably not economical for burning, I find it hard to imagine that they had no access to wood.
- dghf 12y agoSkara Brae is amazing: it's a very freaky feeling standing in something still recognisable as a home after four thousand years. But it is in no way a city. The article admits as much, calling it 'one of the best preserved Stone Age villages in Europe'. Even the word 'village' is generous; it's a hamlet. I guess '34 Lost Settlements' wouldn't have the same snap as a title.
- contingencies 12y agoIn Asia I would say omissions include: Angkor (now central Cambodia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor Hugely significant for the language and culture of mainland Southeast Asia. Dali, Nanzhao (now Yunnan, China) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanzhao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanzhao Important as a highly developed kingdom with influence over a large area that acted as an early crossroads between China, India, Tibet, and non-state peoples of Zomia. Various cities, Shu kingdom (now Sichuan, China) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_%28state%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_%28state%29 Rediscovered in the 1980s, purely only known by literary reference in ancient Chinese texts, this civilization is known to have had highly developed bronze working far beyond the capacity of any other known in human history. We really know little about them as they did not have a written language, other than they had some form of ritual or belief system involving masks, large and ornate metallic trees and bird figures. Various cities, Champa (now central and southern Vietnam) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champa Champa was the pre-Chinese Indian kingdom of Vietnam. It was finally conquered in the 15th century, though its descendents remain. Huge Hindu temple complexes remain which are spectacular. Jambi, Srivijaya (now eastern Sumatra, Indonesia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melayu_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melayu_Kingdom Interesting because it's huge and mostly unexcavated - potentially a second Angkor. ... and probably at least 3 or 4 early (eg. Mon) sites in Burma.