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The long read: They may be vine-smothered ruins today, but the lost cities of the ancient tropics still have a lot to teach us about how to live alongside nature

The 12th-century Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia. Photograph: Mark Croucher/Alamy Stock Photo They may be vine-smothered ruins today, but the lost cities of the ancient tropics still have a lot to teach us about how to live alongside nature By Patrick Roberts Tue 22 Jun 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 29 Oct 2021 07.34 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google V isions of “lost cities” in the jungle have consumed western imaginations since Europeans first visited the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas. From the Lost City of Z to El Dorado, a thirst for finding ancient civilisations and the

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