Lost Cities of Antiquity
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Lost Cities of Antiquity — Angkor
Angkor was the capital region of the Khmer Empire from the ninth through fifteenth centuries, containing successive royal cities, monumental Hindu and Buddhist temples, roads, reservoirs, dykes…
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island civilization described by Plato in Timaeus and Critias, composed around 360 BCE.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Carthage
Phoenician settlers from Tyre founded Carthage on the Gulf of Tunis in the ninth century BCE.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe was the major stone-built capital of a Shona civilization and an important inland trading center, flourishing especially between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Greek and Roman authors described a remarkable series of elevated, irrigated gardens associated by later tradition with Nebuchadnezzar II's sixth-century BCE Babylon.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu was built in the 15th century at the height of the Inca Empire, probably as a royal estate and ceremonial center.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Mesa Verde
Ancestral Pueblo people lived in the Mesa Verde region for more than seven centuries, developing from mesa-top farming villages into masonry pueblos and, especially from about 1180 to 1300 CE, the…
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Petra
Petra was the Nabataeans' rock-cut caravan capital and flourished as a meeting point between Arabian, Hellenistic, and wider Mediterranean traditions.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Pompeii
Pompeii developed into a prosperous Roman Campanian city with public buildings, paved streets, shops, baths, theatres, an amphitheatre, and richly decorated houses.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Tikal
Tikal grew into one of the most powerful cities of the ancient Maya, with its greatest monumental development during the Classic period.
Lost Cities of Antiquity — Troy
Troy occupied the mound of Hisarlik for roughly four millennia, controlling a strategic landscape near the southern entrance to the Dardanelles.