Lost cities
Lost in the Great Fire: which London buildings disappeared in the 1666 blaze?
This week 350 years ago, the Great Fire of London burned through 400 of the city’s streets. Matthew Green reveals the extraordinary structures lost in the blaze – from old St Paul’s to a riverside castle – and what survived, only to vanish later
Fallen cities: how artists have captured ruins, from Kabul to Rome – in pictures
Architectural ruins and lost cities have fascinated artists throughout the centuries. A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, When Cities Fall, showcases impressions of crumbling heritage both imagined and real
Lost cities #10: Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon
In the 1920s the US industrialist wanted to found a city based on the values that made his company a success – while, of course, producing cheap rubber. The jungle city that bore his name ended up one of his biggest failures
Lost cities #9: racism and ruins – the plundering of Great Zimbabwe
In the 19th century, European visitors to this abandoned medieval city refused to believe that indigenous Africans could have built such an extensive network of monuments. Such ignorance was disastrous for the remains of Great Zimbabwe
Lost cities #3 – Muziris: did black pepper cause the demise of India's ancient port?
In the first century BC it was one of India’s most important trading ports, whose exports – especially black pepper – kept even mighty Rome in debt. But have archaeologists really found the site of Muziris, and why did it drop off the map?
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