MeFi: This was a state, sophisticated, urban, and lost to history (opens in new tab)

For generations, were unremarked and unrecorded, hidden in plain sight across one of the most remote and inaccessible deserts on earth. The desert kept its treasures to itself. Then, in the early years of this century, teams of archaeologists armed with satellite imagery looked down from orbit and saw what no one had properly seen before: an entire civilisation gazing back.