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Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges [View all]
By DAVID KELLY
AUG 19, 2018 | 4:00 AM
| ARKANSAS CITY, KAN.
Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.
There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes.
Yet there’s always been something — something just below the surface.
Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold.
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html
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