Laser technology shines light on South African ‘lost city’ of Kweneng
Settlement with limited traces was sophisticated and thriving metropolis, lasers reveal
From close up, all that is visible are some broken walls among the scrubby brush, a mound covered by parched grass, a dry river gully.
But to Professor Karim Sadr and his team of archaeologists from Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand, the ruins at Kweneng tell an extraordinary story of a long-lost city.