Stone City of Yorgemsur Kuniz

The Stone City of Yorgemsur Kuniz, also known as Kerr sezhyaga, is an archaeological city located in the North western section of the Yorgemsur Kurniz province in Katamur. The majority of the city is built into the cliffs of the Skatasu mountains with very few (known) buildings outside. The city is believed to have been the capital of the Imumur kingdom of Taukram, a powerful nation in Southern Katamur. The city was an important center of trade, connecting the coastal trade with trade north of the Kunemya pass making it one of the wealthiest cities of its time on the peninsula. The wealth was further expanded by the cities fame for stone-carving, with one statue, The Champion of Taukram, considered a masterpiece of Antiquity sculpting by the global artistic community. The city reached it's peak at the time of the height of the Taukram kingdom in the mid 100's BC where the population peaked around ~26,000 along with the completion of The Mountains Epic, a holy site with an ancient Imumurian legend carved across the walls of the temple. The city, and the kingdom itself, would collapse in it's entirety in 42 AC after the pale Blight wiped much of the kingdoms population along with the wars preceding it. The city would be lost and disappear into obscurity for over a thousand years before it's rediscovery in 1368 AC, after a group of hikers stumbled upon it.

Today, The Stone city is a major tourist attraction, attracting under 700,000 tourists in 1609 alone. The city covers an area of approximately 16km2 and is surrounded by a larger 50km2 area that has been declared a natural preservation region, with the only buildings present being for the continued preservation of the site, and tourism. The city is often regarded as a "perfect window into the past of the Imumur people at a time where they dominated the south-east", and is the cultural hallmark of the Imumur identity. Since early April, Access to the city and it's preservation region has been restricted to investigate concerns of risk to the continued preservation of the site. Official sources promise the reopening of the city in mid September with enhanced protections to the city and it's area.