# How likely is it that there are undiscovered long-lost ancient buildings in the world?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 31, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473 "2022-05-31T23:09:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/61 "2022-06-14T03:08:02Z")

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> **[Two Lost Cities Hidden For Centuries Were Just Discovered In Bolivia](https://thechroniclesofhistory.com/2022/06/12/lost-cities-hidden-for-centuries-were-just-discovered-in-bolivia/?ICID=ref_fark)**
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> An international team of researchers from Germany and the UK have uncovered a network of cities that include reservoirs and causeways spanning several miles lying within the rainforest of the Amazo…

I’ll take my money now.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/62 "2022-06-14T07:47:51Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> and other writers of the “Lost World” genre who mostly had only a passing acquaintance with archeology or anthropology and whose ideas of lost empires and ancient people who rigged cleverly booby-trapped temples are the very definition of pulp fiction.

I don’t know what you mean… it’s completely reasonable!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cwu1rCjb1Fk/maxresdefault.jpg "The Guys Who Set Up Ancient Booby Traps") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwu1rCjb1Fk)

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/63 "2022-06-14T15:40:43Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I don’t know what you mean… it’s completely reasonable!

“Super easy…barely an inconvenience!”

Stranger

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**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/64 "2022-06-14T21:44:44Z")

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I linked to an article about this in post #18.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/65 "2022-06-14T23:11:21Z")

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Sorry. The article seemed to make it out as brand new.

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**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/66 "2022-06-14T23:27:11Z")

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Its fine. That article is completely sourced from the Nature article I posted. The Nature article was May 25th, this was June 12th. By the standards of archeology, that’s absolutely brand new.

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