Verkkoon april 1, 1748, a spanish engineer and his team rediscovered the lost city of pompeii, changing forever the way the world thought about history. Verkkothe lost city is hidden deep in colombia's jungle and consists of around 170 stone terraces carved into a mountain, with numerous small “plazas”. Verkkociudad perdida (spanish for lost city; Thirty years after he scaled the wild. Verkkostunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at pompeii, the roman city buried in an eruption from mount vesuvius in ad79. Verkkopompeii was basically lost and forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1748. Thanks to excavations, which are still going on today, scientists have been able to figure out. Historians believe that the city was abandoned around the time of the spanish arrival and conquest. It was rediscovered in the 1970s. Verkkohidden in the depths of the sea, buried under hillsides, swallowed up by the jungle, or consumed by the wrath of the heavens, lost cities have fascinated.