Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges

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https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark#

 

 

"A few years ago, Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeology professor at Wichita State University, began piecing things together. And what he’s found has spurred a rethinking of traditional views on the early settlement of the Midwest, while potentially filling a major gap in American history.

 

Using freshly translated documents written by the Spanish conquistadors more than 400 years ago and an array of high-tech equipment, Blakeslee located what he believes to be the lost city of Etzanoa, home to perhaps 20,000 people between 1450 and 1700."