abandoned city

In the early 1970s, a local guaquero (guaquero means

At the peak of the city, in 1050, the population here reached 30,000 people. This is the largest city in the past that once existed, on a scale far beyond Paris or London.

Archaeologists have found an ancient city of Mayan civilization forgotten for centuries in the rain forest in southeastern Mexico.

A small city with nearly 50,000 people was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster and stayed in ruin for over a quarter of a century.