12 Nations Whose Existence Was Only Proven By a Single Discovery

12 Nations Whose Existence Was Only Proven By a Single Discovery August twenty-second, eighteen twelve. A twenty-seven-year-old Swiss explorer named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is moving through the mountains of southern Jordan disguised as a Muslim pilgrim. He calls himself Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abdallah. His Arabic is good enough to fool most people, but his guides are still suspicious. He has heard rumors of a ruined city hidden inside a canyon, a city so remote and so sacred that no European has entered it in over a thousand years.