A Lost City Was Just Discovered In Kansas And It's Truly Amazing

Spaniards documented Etzanoa, saying it was a city on both sides of the river, holding around 2,000 houses that could hold up to 10 people each, and it could take 2-3 days to walk through it completely. Locals always knew there was a large Native American presence here, as they've found more than their fair share of artifacts like flint tools left behind from more than 400 years ago. Cannonballs from a war between the Escanxaques and the Spaniards were found near a ravine matching an ancient description of a battle.

War, disease, and other terrible causes drove the local tribes to scatter, some going towards Oklahoma, leaving this huge settlement behind. Now, it's almost all covered by modern structures and obscured by time. Pictured is what he believes to be a ritual stone, where pregnant members of the community would pour water into divots and drink from them as they pray for a safe pregnancy.

At this stone, we see man-made carvings into it's face. Blakeslee believes this to be another of many ritual stones, where water could be poured into basins through stair-like steps, bringing the streams together, then apart again. Water is an important sacred element in Native cultures, and is often linked directly to life itself.