![]() ![]() “The Atlas of Lost Cities” by Aude de Tocqueville is ironically subtitled “A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations.” A few of the 43 cities are still alive, like Hiroshima, Japan, and some like Angor, Cambodia and Tikal, Guatemala are now tourist destinations. 73, rather than be captured by Roman legions.īut has anyone ever heard of Varosha, a city in Cyprus, that is still sealed off by the Turkish military after they bombarded it into ruins during the civil war of 1974? Or Kantubuk, once an island in the Aral Sea that was home to a vast Soviet biological weapons center? (Unfortunately, due to the draining of the Aral Sea for cotton production, the island is now a peninsula and dangerously more accessible.) 49, and about Angor, Cambodia, which hosts three million tourists per year, or perhaps Masada, where over a thousand Hebrews committed suicide in A.D. ![]() Nearly everyone has read about the city of Pompeii, which was engulfed in minutes by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in A.D. ![]() Let's explore the unknown, a running theme to the books in this series of posts. Author’s Note: What would geography be without mysteries to be explored, and maybe, but not always, solved. ![]()
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