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Welcome to the Guardian Long Read, showcasing the best long-form journalism covering culture,

politics and new thinking. For the text version of this and all our long reads, go to theguardian.com

forward slash long read. The real urban jungle, how ancient societies reimagined what cities could

be. They may be vines-mothered 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, read by Andrew McGregor

and produced by Esther O'Poe Cugeni. Visions 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 civilizations and their

treasures in perilous tropical forest settings has driven innumerable, ill-fated expeditions.

This obsession has seeped into Western societies popular ideas of tropical forest cities,

with overgrown ruins acting as the backdrop for fear, discovery and life-threatening

challenges in countless films, novels and video games. Throughout these depictions runs the idea

that all ancient cities and states in tropical forests were doomed to fail. That the most

resilient occupants of tropical forests are small villages of poisoned art-blowing hunter-gatherers,

and that vicious vines and towering trees, or in the case of the jungle book, a boisterous army of

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