Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was ...

Founded, furnished and eventually forgotten – this has been the fate of many cities since ancient times. A few names have stayed alive in legend and literature while others disappeared completely – ...

The Amazon rainforest, mountain highlands, and desert sands have long held secrets buried beneath their surfaces. Recent archaeological discoveries have upended centuries of assumptions about where ...

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In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For decades, the rainforest was seen as too hostile for ancient urban life. But that ...

One of the ancient submerged cities in the Mediterranean is found in Greece. Stories of submerged cities are as fascinating ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

What do cities reveal about us? Not just our engineering or art, but our longings—what we value, what we revere, how we choose to live together. William Frej’s new book, Unforgotten: Ancient Cities ...

Neolithic towns and villages in the Near East -- Early Sumerian cities -- Mesopotamian cities in the late third and second millennia BC -- Cities of the Indus Valley civilization -- Egypt of the ...

Visit ancient religious and cultural centers that have shaped the ways we view the world. Many of the Ancient Cities that helped shape the modern world endure to this day. In this episode we journey ...

A Catholic priest, Pedro Porras, was the first to research and document the Amazon rainforest’s Upano Valley culture dating back 2,500 years. He did archaeological research all across Ecuador, often ...