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Mystery City

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
25 October 2004 - 2:00pm

Why did one of the world's largest metropolitan centers become a ghost town?

"At its zenith, around A.D. 1050, the city that is now called Cahokia was among the largest metropolitan centers in the world...But by 1300, the city had become a ghost town, its carefully built structures abandoned and its population dispersed...This odd silence on the matter of Cahokia has led some experts to theorize that something particularly nasty happened there."

Full Story: Indian Mounds Mystify Excavators
Source: Wired, October 22, 2004
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