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 – ...

Have you ever wondered which is actually the oldest city in the world? The answer takes us far back—to a time when people began to organize their lives permanently in one place. Long before modern ...

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 ...

Researchers scouring the ancient Kani Shaie site located a monumental building that they said could be a cultic space. The architecture of the site mimics that of nearby Uruk, showing a potential link ...

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

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 ...