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Asylum requests went up 26 percent in the US to 330,000 last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in its annual International Migration Outlook.</div>
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Germany, which had topped the ranking since 2013, meanwhile saw a 73 percent drop in applications to 198,000 as the massive influx to Europe across the Mediterranean has slowed, the report said.</div>
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The report was released as President Donald Trump faces a criticism over his administration's practice of separating migrant children from their parents on the US-Mexico border.</div>
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'The refugee crisis has heightened concerns in the public opinion about the potential benefits of migration,' the OECD's labour director Stefano Scarpetta wrote in the report.</div>
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If countries want to work together better on migration and protect refugees, 'these concerns must be addressed.'</div>
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Trump has promised a 'zero tolerance' approach to immigration, vowing that America will not become a 'migrant camp'.</div>
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But the policy of separating families has sparked a huge uproar, with Democrats who have visited detention facilities describing crying Central American children held in cage-like conditions.</div>
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The United Nations has slammed the separation practice as unconscionable, while Amnesty International blasted it as 'nothing short of torture.'</div>
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In Europe, which has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive on flimsy boats since 2015, the OECD warned governments needed to find jobs for young refugees or risk fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment over their failure to integrate.</div>
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Young men with little education make up a disproportionate number of the roughly four million people who have claimed asylum in Europe since 2014, the Paris-based rich nations' club said.</div>
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While it stressed the influx has so far had relatively little impact on locals' chances of getting a job, it said countries like Germany and Sweden, which have taken in particularly large numbers, could see a rise in unemployment.</div>
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In Germany, it predicted migrants could swell the number of unemployed by about six percent by the end of 2020, which would bring the unemployment rate up around half a percentage point.</div>
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The warning comes as tensions over migration have returned to the fore in European politics, not least in Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel's interior minister is calling for a tougher approach.</div>

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Revealed: The top ten places to visit in Europe this year

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It saw off competition from destinations across <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/spain/index.html" id="mol-a8a832c0-5ced-11e8-9546-7be7de0b8325" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004db3; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: auto;">Spain</a> including Cantabria which came second, the UK, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/france/index.html" id="mol-a8a7bd90-5ced-11e8-9546-7be7de0b8325" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004db3; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: auto;">France</a> and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/greece/index.html" id="mol-a8a7e4a0-5ced-11e8-9546-7be7de0b8325" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004db3; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: auto;">Greece</a>to top Lonely Planet's Best in Europe list for 2018.</div>
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And a surprising entry on the list is Scottish city of Dundee, which was lauded for its growing cultural scene and exciting transformation of its historic waterfront.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">An aerial view of the historic centre of Bologna, which is in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. It has been named as the best place to visit in Europe for 2018 by Lonely Planet</span></div>
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The experts say that this year's list directly tackles the hot topic of 'overtourism', 'aiming to inspire travellers to discover some of the best lesser-visited regions, alternative city breaks and hidden gems, beyond Europe's busiest tourist hotspots</div>
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Emilia-Romagna came out on top despite often being overlooked in favour of Italian favourites Tuscany, Campania and The Veneto.</div>
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Judges said the area - which includes the city of Bologna, Ferrara and Rimini - is increasingly carving out a reputation as the nation's number one destination for food lovers.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Second on the list is Cantabria, an autonomous region, pictured, on Spain's northern coast that's home to the city of Santander</span></div>
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It is the birthplace of Ragu, prosciutto di Parma, balsamic vinegar and Parmesan cheese.</div>
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The experts noted that the area's foodie legacy can be explored at Bologna's newly opened FICO, the world's largest culinary theme park, while new cultural openings in Ferrara and Rimini provide more for visitors to get their teeth into.</div>
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Coming in second is Cantabria, an autonomous region on Spain's northern coast that's home to the city of Santander.</div>
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The area was praised for its 'land of wild, sandy beaches, mist-shrouded mountains and enchanting villages'.</div>
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Friesland in the Netherlands is third, with Lonely Planet describing it as 'a region of beguiling landscapes and a lively capital city that is this year's European Capital of Culture'.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Dundee, pictured, entered the list in sixth with Scotland's fourth largest city being praised for its 'head turning' urban redevelopment</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">Dundee is set to open the newest branch of the V&A museum, pictured, in September on the banks of the River Tay </span></div>
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Coming in fourth is the tiny state of Kosovo, a young nation that Lonely Planet's experts say boasts dramatic hiking trails, Ottoman-era history and a growing cultural scene.</div>
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Rounding off the top five is the Provence region of France, which is best known for its olive groves and lavender fields.</div>
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Meanwhile Dundee entered the list in sixth with Scotland's fourth largest city being praised for its 'head turning' urban redevelopment, which is being spearheaded by the opening of the newest branch of the V&A museum in September.</div>
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Describing the city, Lonely Planet's writers praised a creative scene in Dundee that 'increasingly attracts some of the UK's most visionary talent', building on its selection by Unesco as the UK's first City of Design in 2014.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">The colourful buildings and the narrow cobbled streets of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, which came eighth on Lonely Planet's list</span></div>
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Lonely Planet's editorial director, Tom Hall, said: 'While visitors have always been assured of a friendly welcome, Dundee has often been overlooked by travellers to Scotland, but that should be set to change.</div>
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'The opening of V&A Dundee is a really exciting moment that marks the city out as well worth a visit, but throw in nationally important museums and attractions, and its dynamic, creative spirit, and travellers will find a city boasting plenty to discover.'</div>
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Rounding off the top ten is the Small Cyclades islands in Greece, which includes Mykonos and Santorini, Lithuania's capital Vilnius, the Vipava Valley in Slovenia and the capital of Albania, Tirana.</div>
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Airports play a role in contributing to a country’s economy. Ambitious projects often cost billions, in the hopes that it can generate more with tourism and travel. With more people trotting the globe than ever before, airports are expanding and upgrading at unprecedented rates. These are the top 10 airports that have spared no expense in building out of this world airports.</div>
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One of South Asia’s biggest airports, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport covers 25,000 acres of space. It was built in 1998 after the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia relocated a patch of the jungle rainforest for the airport. It took 25,000 workers from 52 countries over four years to build the airport.</div>
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Designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, the airport marries local culture with technology and brings elements of rainforest into its design. The airport was built with a “"airport in the forest, forest in the airport" idea in mind, displaying tropical greenery both inside and outside its buildings.</div>
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From outside, the airport’s pitched roof looks similar to the indigenous wooden houses in Malaysia. Inside, the airport ceiling is made up of panels that are printed with a  timber-effect ceiling while the patterns of the floor resembles traditional weaving motifs.<br />
Launched when the airport first opened is its driverless train system, Aerotrain, which can move at least three thousand people within an hour. Today, it has become a standard-bearer for in-airport transportation.</div>
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Built in 2006, the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok has the tallest free-standing control tower in the world, at 434 feet tall. It is also one of the busiest airports in the world, with over 55 million passengers passing through the airport each year. </div>
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Denver International Airport went $2 billion over budget before it even opened in 1995. The new Jeppesen Terminal has become an international icon with its tent-like roof. Crowning the terminal, the white fiberglass roof resembles snow-capped mountains.</div>
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Once it opens, Berlin Brandenburg Airport will be the city’s main airport, replacing the Tegel airport. After almost 15 years of planning, construction began in 2006. Originally planned to open in 2010, the airport has encountered a series of delays due to poor construction planning and execution.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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When it finally opens, the airport will include a new business park, easy rail access and a gate that can handle the Airbus A380, a plane that costs $400 million to build but can fit at least 500 passengers depending on the overall layout used inside the plane.</div>
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It cost around $6 billion to build Dubai International Airport. The airport boasts a satellite concourse with 28 gates, 42 loading bridges, and 221 check-in counters, along with a 100-room, five-star luxury hotel, conference, business and entertainment centers, and restaurants.</div>
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It is a major contributor to the Dubai tourism and economy, contributing about $26.7 billion annually. The giant airport also employs over 90,000 people and handles over 45 million passengers each year. </div>
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The bulk of Beijing Capital International Airport came from the $3.8 billion expansion at Terminal 3 in recent years. The 3.2 million square foot terminal houses more than 70 restaurants and a large baggage area that is bar-code based. The baggage area can take 19,000 pieces of bags in one hour, while the airport itself can manage a jaw-dropping million people each year.</div>
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London’s largest airport has spent<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span> $10.5 billion since it opened in 1929. The airport is also one of the biggest in the world and much of the sum was spent on Terminal 5, which opened in 2008. There are also plans to spend around $1.6 billion in the next decade to upgrade Terminal 3.</div>
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Since 2010, Al Maktoum International Airport has expanded to include five runways of 16,000 feet each, three huge passenger terminals and 100,000 parking spaces. </div>
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Built on an artificial island, it took approximately six years for the Hong Kong International Airport to be completed. It opened in 1998 and cost $20 billion to make. </div>
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Contributing to the cost was the need to level Check Lap Kok Island on the western shore of Hong Kong to make room for the airport and to create a strong base beneath the buildings and runways.</div>
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Kansai International Airport is also built on a 2.5-mile-long artificial island in Osaka. There is enough space for 5 planes to take off or land at the same time. A large seawall was designed around the airport to protect it from ocean waves. A $1 billion bridge connects the island to The mainland.</div>
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20 Lost Cities of the Ancient World that Were Rediscovered

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We were always fascinated by tales and legends of lost cities or abandoned places forgotten in the depths of time, and history never lacked of stories about them.</div>
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Throughout time, explorers ventured into far corners of our world with the hope of discovering such places. From El Dorado, the city of gold, to cities destroyed by natural disasters, war and social upheaval or to Atlantis itself, we were and are continuously fascinated by these tales.</div>
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History shows accounts of various forgotten cities, some of them revealed but others, like Thinis, Atil or Gangga Negara that are yet to be discovered, so explorers and historians continue their quests.</div>
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But now let’s take a look at The Top 20 Rediscovered Lost Cities:</div>
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Sanchi was a city located in the Madhya Pradesh region of India discovered in 1818 by a British officer. Found there were stupas, Buddhist temples and monasteries built across time all the way from the 3rd century BC to the 11th century AD. The Great Stupa in Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India and was commissioned by the emperor Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BC over the relics of the Buddha.</div>
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Nowadays a National Park, Mesa Verde is one of those lost cities, home to some of the best Ancestral Puebloan sites, located in the Montezuma County, Colorado. Built under rock overhangs back in the 12th century, the cliff dwellings have up to 150 chambers each, but due to the environmental instability with severe droughts, the inhabitants abandoned the area and moved to other places in Arizona and New Mexico. The last of them left the area back in 1285, so the dwellings remained untouched for a long time.</div>
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Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, 60 km northeast of Shiraz in Iran, and it’s home to some of the last remaining samples of the Achaemenid architectural style. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, the history of the place goes back to the year 515 BC, when it was built by Darius I. At first it was the capital of Persia and then a province of the Macedonian Empire. The city was discovered and revealed by the French archaeologist Andre Godard during the 1930’s.</div>
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Founded in 3100 BC by the pharaoh Menes as the administrative capital of ancient Egypt, Memphis was placed in a strategic position at the mouth of the Nile delta. It housed the great temple of the god Ptah, its protector, but lost its religious significance when the city of Alexandria started becoming more important as the seat of Christianity in the region.</div>
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Babylon, the capital of Babylonia, situated on the Euphrates River, is known to have been the largest city in the world between 1770 to 1670 BC and from 612 to 320 BC with a population of over 200,000. After the unrest of 1180 BC, it continued to exist as an important city in the Assyrian Empire and it was renowned for its luxury during the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, the builder of its famous Hanging Gardens. Today, the remains of Babylon can be found in Hillah, Iraq.</div>
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Hvalsey was the largest Viking settlement in Greenland, home to about 4,000 inhabitants at the height of their power. They settled somewhere around the year 985 AD and remained there until 1408, when the last records attest a wedding that took place in the church. Afterwards, the settlement was probably abandoned.</div>
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One of the largest cities of the Maya civilization, Calakmul was discovered by Cyrus Lundell in 1931 deep into the jungle of the Peten Basin region, in the Campeche state of Mexico. The archaeologists estimate that it had a population of 50,000 people and a total of 6,750 structures, some of which are the largest Mayan pyramids in existence. The monumental architecture of the city made it one of the most important discoveries in the region and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.</div>
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One of the largest cities in the world through the 14th and 16th centuries, the Indian city of Vijayanagara was attacked and conquered in 1565 by the Muslim kingdoms. The city and its Hindu temples were obliterated in a few months and the city was never reoccupied or rebuilt. Located in the Ballari district to the north of Karnataka, its ruins are today a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986. The name translates to the ‘City of Victory’ – ironic when you think of its history.</div>
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With a name that means ‘city of palm trees’, Palmyra was one of the cities that linked the trade routes between Persia and the Mediterranean ports, serving an important role during the Roman Empire. When the Sassanids occupied the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the trade in the area declined and later on, in 634, Palmyra was captured by the Arabs, which led to its decline. The city was discovered in the 17th century.</div>
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One of the largest cities in the world during the 6th century, Ctesiphon – part of Mesopotamia, came under numerous attacks throughout its history, first from the Romans and then from the Byzantines, until it finally fell to the Islamic conquest of Persia in 637. The capital then moved to Baghdad, leaving the city deserted. Found on the territory of today’s Iraq, the great city of Ctesiphon has only the arch Taq-I Kisra as its witness for everything it’s been through.</div>
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The capital of Armenia back in the 10th century, Ani was named the city of 1001 churches due to the large number of medieval churches existing there. The city had a population of up to 200,000 people at its peak time and used to be the capital of the country until the Mongol invasions of the 13th century led to the city’s decline and abandonment. Located in today’s Kars province of Turkey, Ani offers some great samples of medieval architecture.</div>
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Palenque is a small abandoned Mayan city, one of great importance due to the exquisite architecture and sculptures discovered there dating from between the 600 to 800 AD. The inhabitants of the city lived on agriculture and after they left it, the city fell prey to the jungle. The archaeologists had to work to reveal the burried carvings and buildings in Palenque which became the most studied and written about Mayan site.</div>
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Located on the shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku was an important religious center from 300 BC to 300 AD, drawing many people to its gates. The city grew into one of the most powerful dwellings of the Andes and by the 9th century it’s estimated to have had over 30,000 inhabitants. But due to a climate change in 1000 AD and the growing scarcity of the food in the area, Tiwanaku was abandoned.</div>
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Described in the Iliad of Homer as the focus of the Trojan War, Troy went through destruction, rebuilding, decline and in the end abandonment according to the story. The lost city was found back in 1865 by the British archaeologist Frank Calvert in northwest Anatolia, Turkey.</div>
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Much renowned for its pyramids, Teotihuacan was an Aztec city at the peak of its glory before the 6th century AD when the climate change led to severe droughts and the abandonment of the city. The Aztecs continued to honor it as a place of pilgrimage and nowadays it’s the most visited archaeological site in Mexico.</div>
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One of the most known tragedies in history, the eruption of Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD left the Roman city of Pompeii abandoned. The ash preserved its buildings and allows for a unique insight into the daily life and habits of its inhabitants. The city was discovered in 1599 and rediscovered in 1748 again by the engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre. Since then on, it serves as one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy.</div>
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With a population that reached 200,000 inhabitants between 200 and 900 AD, Tikal was the largest Mayan city, but the erosion of the region and the deforestation led to a severe decline of its population and by 950 AD the city was almost deserted. The rain-forest then kept growing back and nobody but a few locals knew about the existence of the city anymore. It was discovered in 1848 by Modesto Mendez and Ambrosio Tut, the commissioner and the governor of Peten.</div>
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Petra was the capital of the Nabateean kingdom, carved in the Wadi Musa Canyon. Several earthquakes led to a crippled water management of the city and its abandonment in the 6th century. The city was forgotten until the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt discovered it in 1812.</div>
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The enormous city of Angkor Wat with its large temple, was the center of the Khmer Empire between the 9th and 15th centuries AD. The Angkor Wat temple is the largest religious monument in the world. The city’s official religion switched back and forth between Hinduism and Buddhism so its architecture is a unique combination of the two. The city was sacked by invaders in 1431 leaving only the Buddhist shrine at Angkor Wat inhabited.</div>
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One of the most iconic tourist attractions nowadays, the Inca city of Machu Picchu stands above the Urubamba Valley in Peru. It was built in the 15th century and was abandoned one century later due to the Spanish conquest in 1572 or due the smallpox epidemy that came with the conquistadors. The city was discovered in 1911 by the explorer Hiram Bingham, aided by Melchor Arteaga.</div>

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