Hidden cities, underground refuges and places that vanished for centuries.
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No. 004 · Ancient cities
In 1963, a resident of Derinkuyu in central Turkey broke through a wall in his house and found a passage leading down into a vast underground city, carved out of soft volcanic rock and big enough to shelter thousands of people.
No. 006 · Ancient cities
In July 1911, a Yale lecturer named Hiram Bingham climbed a jungle ridge in Peru and found Inca ruins of astonishing quality. He was guided there by local people, and two farming families were already living among the terraces.
No. 005 · Ancient cities
In AD 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pumice. Seventeen centuries later, royal diggers began tunnelling into them, and a 19th-century archaeologist found a way to give shape to the people who died there.