10 Lost Cities The Uncharted Film Could Explore

If Uncharted likes their lost cities to tie into real historical figures, they could do a lot worse than Shangdu (also known as Xanadu).

Historically, Shangdu was the summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty, then under the control of the Mongols, led by Kublai Khan. It is said that Marco Polo spent some time here in 1275. It was ultimately destroyed by the Ming army in 1369.

While archaeologists have pinpointed the actual location of Shangdu, the world of Uncharted has made Shambhala, the Cintamani Stone, and the Tree of Life real, so they are more than capable of bending history and archaeology to their whim for dramatic purposes.

Marco Polo described it as a walled city, at the center of which sat a marble palace, every room of which was coated with gold. The city was full of fountains, brooks, and meadows, as well as wild animals, including hundreds of falcons.

If the city is situated in the Gobi Desert, the writers could also incorporate the region's resident monster (in the tradition of Uncharted 1's zombies, Uncharted 2's yetis, and Uncharted 3's djinn): the Mongolian Death Worm.

Doesn't that sound fun? Mongol paradises and man-eating sand-worms? Come on.