Comments on: Man Knowledge: Lost Cities Every Man Should Know

By: Clive G

Clive G — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:07:33 +0000

To be fair Troy was never really lost. Ilium was a standard stop on Roman tours of Asia. However it was thought that Homer’s Iliad couldn’t really reflect a historical reality. It was Schliemann’s work at Troy and Mycenae that “proved” that the Iliad was at least plausible.

By: basque guy

basque guy — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:02:47 +0000

and* not are

By: basque guy

basque guy — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:02:03 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpuE7wCLjrk&list=HL1351458049&feature=mh_lolz

the basques are our blood brothers the catalans are the atlanteans/hebrews of the bible

By: mike

mike — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:04:57 +0000

http://www.cracked.com/article_18718_6-famous-unsolved-mysteries-that-have-totally-been-solved.html

By: Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:16:16 +0000

The motiff of sudden and total disaster is common to mankind; the Old Testament Flood, itself possibly from a babylonian account, Atlantis and today’s fear of nuclear annihilation, Armageddon and preoccupation with end time prophecies from the Hopi.
Disaster has always been a companion to humanity from the days when a few thousand people hung on in glacial europe. True or metaphorical, Lost cities reflect our shared experience. The flood myth itself possibly recalls post glacial memories when the U.K. was still connected to europe or the cataclysmic flooding now known to have occured in the caspian sea with wooden artifacts still visible underwater. The famous lair of caribean pirates lies underwater from a earthquake and Krakatoa, Vesuvius and Mount Saint Helens all remind us of a poem ” I am Ozymandius!’

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:56:48 +0000

“El Dorado” translates more closely to “the golden one”, “the one with a golden aspect”.

There is no state of “Mato Grasso”(*), but “Mato Grosso” (thick grass or thick jungle).

(*) Funnily enough, that would translate as “fatty grass” in portuguese (mato = grass, jungle, and grasso = oily, fatty,…), which is close to the name of a common variety of grass (capim gordura – capim = grass, gordura = fat).

By: DaveN

DaveN — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:58:45 +0000

Atlantis was a myth made up for illustrative purposes by Plato. However, it is possible that the eruption of Thera some time in the second millenium BCE may have been a contributing influence to Plato’s myth. A village, Akrotiri, was destroyed by the eruption.

By: Tim Richards

Tim Richards — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:46:08 +0000

Hate to be a buzzkill, but it actually says in Homer’s works that Atlantis is a hypothetical city, created only for him to demonstrate a point (which I can’t remember). Sorry.

By: Jeffrey D

Jeffrey D — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:56:50 +0000

Hugo, thanks for the heads up about the darkie menace.

By: Sean Murley

Sean Murley — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:33:34 +0000

When people refer to El Dorado they are actually referring to Lake Guatavita. http://www.cracked.com/article/18358_5-real-buried-treasures-that-can-make-you-rich-or-kill-you