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Searching for Lost Cities May/June 2024
Which Island Is it Anyway?
Unidentified Island, English Channel
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Searching for Lost Cities May/June 2024
Medieval Mountain Citadel
Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan and Afghanistan
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Searching for Lost Cities
From Iraq to West Africa and the English Channel to the Black Sea, archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of once-great cities lost to time

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