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Tamil writers have associated it with Kumari Kandam, a mythical lost continent with an ancientВ TamilВ civilization located south of present-day India in theВ Indian Ocean. Another mythological place is said to exist somewhere in the Indian or the Pacific Ocean. From there, the mighty King fought numerous battles that greatly influenced his life.ДЄnd just as with other famous legendary cities, CamelotвЂ™s actual location remains a profound mystery, suggesting scholars to believe that just as Atlantis or El Dorado, Camelot is nothing more than the figment of a work of fiction.Дespite this, stories and legends in Great Britain suggest it was a real location associated with a flourishing city. James HiltonвЂ™s 1933 novel Lost Horizon tells of a mystical valley hidden in the Kunlun Mountains in Tibet which is completely untouched and unspoiled by modern ways. Still, the city and its treasures have never been found.Д¬amelotВ is aВ castleВ andВ courtВ associated with the legendary King Arthur. Shangri-La is an interesting lost city because its origin comes from a modern and very fictional work. Many explorers searched for El Dorado, including Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco de Orellana, the first European conqueror to cross the Amazon River.

Noted for being an ancient city made entirely of gold, this legendary city motivated many Spanish conquistadores to leave everything behind and travel kilometers through inhospitable terrains in South America, searching for a city that was home to incalculable treasures. This legendary city was allegedly located somewhere in Northern America, and some authors even claimed that AztlanвЂ™s remains are located in modern-day Utah.ДЄztlan, which means вЂњthe land to the NorthвЂќ or вЂthe place of whiteness,вЂ™ has never been found.ДЄs noted by the Annals of Tlatelolco, the AztecsвЂ™ migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan on May 24, 1064, the first year of the Aztec solar calendar.ДЄnother well-known legendary city said to exist somewhere in the American continent is the lost city of El Dorado. Their history tells us that they originated from a place called Aztlan.

The seven caves of Chicomoztoc, from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. In recent years Lidar technology has also been used to reveal previously hidden cities near the iconic ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. One of the greatest legendary, lost cities in the American continent is also the home place of one of MesoamericaвЂ™s most important ancient civilizations.ДЄztlan, which is sometimes referred to as the American Atlantis, is the AztecsвЂ™ homeplace, a powerful civilization inhabited parts of modern-day Mexico before the Spanish Conquest.

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