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Re:Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without ... by rurban on Saturday March 19, 2016 @05:17AM (#11317872)
Plenty of those early huge capital cities got lost. Angkor Wat, Edo, Vilcabamba, Troy, Helike, Ai, Aztlán, Ys, Shambhala, Xanadu, Carthago, Karakorum, Niniveh, Persepolis, Ur, Samarkand, ...

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city

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