Archaeologists Discover The Site Of A Massive Long-Lost City In The US
Archaeologists have unearthed the site of a lost city in the most unlikely of places. This civilization wasn’t found in the thick undergrowth of the jungle, nor was it guarded by evil spirits. It was discovered in an unassuming rural field in the heart of the US.
The Los Angeles Times recently talked to Donald Blakeslee, a Wichita State University professor, who discovered the lost city of Etzanoa in Arkansas City, Kansas, not far from the Oklahoma border. This settlement might have been one of the largest Native American settlements ever built, second only to one in Cahokia, Illinois. Spanish colonialists had written about the city’s vast size and complexity, however, the town had vanished with little trace by 1700.
“The Spaniards were amazed by the size of Etzanoa,” Blakeslee told The Wichita Eagle last year. “They counted 2,000 houses that could hold 10 people each. They said it would take two or three days to walk through it all.”
In 2015, Blakeslee and a team of his students were excavating near Arkansas City when they unearthed a mud-covered rusty piece of metal. Locals have discovered literally tons of metal artifacts in this field over the years, however, something about this discovery clicked in Blakeslee’s mind: the nail looked as if it had been flung from the cannon of a Spanish conquistador.
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