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600-year-old lost city with ballcourts, temples, walls found beneath Mexican jungle
Guiengola is estimated to span 360 hectares of land and is said to have contained more than 1,100 buildings, temples, and ...
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The City Walls and Gates
In the city's long history, the earliest walls were built in Zhongdu, capital of the Jin Dynasty. At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years to expand the old ...
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Discovering Khiva, the walled city of Itchan Kala
Looking west over the city walls of Khiva, it's easy to imagine a guardsman watching out for exhausted traders making their way across the dusty Karakum desert towards the ancient city ...
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Walls of Dubrovnik
The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...