In the popular imagination lost cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. ... The concept of a lost city is widely used in popular culture. ...
Myth and legend
Quivira and CĂbola - Two of the mythical Seven Cities of Gold.
The Tripods - The series of novels which they're in.
Samuel Youd (born February 12, 1922 in Lancashire) is a British science fiction author. ... The City of Gold, as shown on a book cover. ... Tripods title, one of the very first computer-generated titles The Tripods is series of books written by John Christopher (alias for Samuel Youd) in the late 1960s which were also filmed as a science fiction TV-series, produced in the UK. The story of the Tripods is post-apocalyptic... The Tripods title, seemingly computer-generated, but made using traditional animation The Tripods is series of novels written by Samuel Youd (under the pen name John Christopher) beginning in the late 1960s. ...
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Database of worldwide cities in text format suitable for any applications requiring a comprehensive list of cities and related information such as regions.
GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold Edition (GAGN) - August 2007 Release
GeoDataSource Cities Database Gold Edition contains 2,880,880 entries with city names in original language and English, feature type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions, sub-regions, state or First-Order Administrative Division, county or Second-Order Administrative Division, longitude and latitude in degree and decimal, Univeral Transverse Mercator coordinate grid and Joint Operations Graphic reference.
The Cities of Gold, of which there is seven, were built by the Emperor of Mu out of fear of a global war which would destroy civilization.
The Seven Cities of Gold hold copies of books in their "Universal Libraries" as well as powerful artifacts, including the "Great Legacy", a portable nuclear reactor.
This triggers an obsessive quest for the Cities of Gold on the part of the Spaniards (Mendoza, Gomez, Perez, Pizzarro).