Lost Cities
Nine cities the world lost — some genuinely pulled back from the seafloor by archaeologists within living memory, some still only a story told by the people whose ancestors say they once lived there. Atlantis has its own page in Sacred Sites; these are its lesser-known relatives.
What connects these nine: each was, at some point, a real place people lived in — not a realm outside geography like the sites in Hidden Realms, but a location that failed, in one of three ways. Some were physically destroyed and buried or submerged, later rediscovered through excavation (Thonis-Heracleion, Helike, Port Royal). Some are claimed to have sunk but have never been confirmed archaeologically, surviving only in folk memory (Ys, Lyonesse, Kitezh, Vineta). And some were never demonstrated to have existed at all — the object of a search that consumed real expeditions and real lives (Cíbola). Dvaraka sits across all three categories at once, which is exactly what makes it interesting.
