Lost Cities Click on Links below for photo sets. A related page is Lost Cities of India.

"What does it mean for a world to vanish? As a kid, when I first came across the term ‘lost cities’, I was mesmerized. A whole city lost? Lost? How can that happen?

We live with the illusion that our physical and cultural worlds have a certain solidity and stability, that despite inevitable change, they will endure long after us, bearing our legacy and progeny. We maintain this illusion even when we’re aware of the many lost worlds that archaeologists have dug out—astonishing places like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Memphis, Mohenjo-Daro and Persepolis. Since such lost worlds first captivated my imagination as a boy, I’ve visited dozens of them but I’ve lost none of my fascination for them."

—From the Introduction of Namit Arora's The Land beyond the Sindhu: Journeys Through Early India, forthcoming from Penguin.