Aeon: Ancient ruins keep being ‘discovered’: were they ever lost? July 11, 2017 Garret Vreeland The cities aren’t lost; the people living in these areas know all about them. And the original legends do not even reference cities; rather, they refer to locations that, for whatever reason, represent a golden age for indigenous communities. Even the landscape is not particularly dangerous; children grow up there, after all. "National-Geographic-izing"?