The 1965 version of She has the ancient city of Kor in Africa.The 1935 version of She has the ancient city of Kor in the Arctic Circle.In Planet of the Apes (2001), the Holy City of Calima turns out to be both ancient and advanced since it's actually a starship from Earth that crashed centuries before.Their only descendants have degenerated to a state of barbarism, and their architectural works and carvings have been reduced nearly to rubble by the jungle, cyclones, earthquakes, and neglect. In King Kong (2005), much of Skull Island's "landscape'' is actually this trope: the monumental structures, roads, and statuary left behind by a long-vanished human culture.In Frank Darabont's unused draft, the technology was even more advanced than what was seen in the film. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.Some of the surprisingly-advanced Bamboo Technology beyond modern inventions and durable death Traps in Congo.
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However, it was deconstructed as well: Killmonger, and his father N'Jobu were angry that they, along with millions of other Africans and African descended peoples, had to live in poverty and oppression while the Wakandans lived in decadence and did nothing to use their resources to help out the others.
A few smaller, better-preserved outposts are subject to the Archaeological Arms Race that drives much of the plot. Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water: Atlantis used to be one of these, but by the time the main characters see it there's nothing left but wreckage.One of them even serves as an aircraft hangar for the Golden Condor, while another is both a giant solar laser and the containment system for a fusion reactor. The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Nearly every temple pyramid that Esteban and his friends discover has some sort of solar-powered mechanism left behind by the ancient empire of Mu.They founded another civilization Beneath the Earth, but on the surface the only remainder left of their presence were abandoned, decaying ruins, and old legends about the Humongous Mecha they used to defend their land. However, one earthquake shook their island and destroyed their cities, and they were forced to seek shelter underground. Their technologic level was miles ahead of any other culture of the same time, and the rest of the world would need millennia to catch up. The Mykene from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger inhabited the Greek island of Bardos in ancient times.Of course, this is because Pandaemonium is actually a giant living spaceship under the ocean and the demons are actually aliens. Chrono Crusade: In the manga, the demon world Pandaemonium has technology leaps and bounds ahead of humanity.All while never revealing its existence, though ancient legends of The Time of Myths may speak of them.
Their claim to fame is that while the rest of the world was living in mud huts they had built a society of Crystal Spires and Togas and parked it in a Medieval comfortable Technological Stasis. In some cases, it is an isolated city-state rather than one of an empire. Hidden beneath the Earth in a Lost World, an Atlantis under the sea, or concealed with advanced technology or magic, the Advanced Ancient Acropolis is the last city of an empire that reached space age levels of technology and/or mythic magical powers. While some have advanced socially, culturally and/or technologically faster than others thanks to internal stability and enlightened rulers, it's rare for a single society (much less city-state) to advance leaps and bounds ahead of its neighbors while keeping all its advances to itself.Ī common setting in pulp stories is the search or surreptitious discovery of an Advanced Ancient Acropolis. The development and advancement of human civilization has been greatly spurred by tech sharing (or spying) between cultures and peoples as ideas are traded.
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