Archaeologists have been very busy excavating lost civilizations, but they haven’t found everything. There are still prominent ancient cities, including capitals of large kingdoms and empires, that have never been unearthed by scholars.
We know these cities exist because ancient texts describe them, but their location may be lost to time. In a few cases, looters have found these cities, and have looted large numbers of artifacts from them. But these robbers have not come forward to reveal their location. In this countdown Live Science takes a look at six ancient cities whose whereabouts are unknown.
Irisagrig: Not long after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, thousands of ancient tablets from a city called “Irisagrig” began appearing on the antiquities market. From the tablets, scholars could tell that Irisagrig was in Iraq and flourished around 4,000 years ago.
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