Discover Thamugadi: Africa’s Roman Ghost City Buried for a Millennium While the whole city often does not vanish, the Roman colony of Thamugadi was established in the North African province of Mumidia by Emperor Traian about 100 A.D., the city,…
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1500-Year-Old Lost Roman City of Altinum Rediscovered Through Aerial Mapping This had been one of the Roman Empire’s richest cities. But when the mighty Germanic Emperor Attila the Hun started his assault in AD452, Altinum’s inhabitants began their great escape…
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The 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid City of Caral: The First City in the Americas Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The…
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4,000-Year-Old Lost Capital of the Fabled Kingdom Found in Syria One of the most ancient cities known to exist on earth is Urkesh. Its exact location was a mystery until the 1990s when, after ten years of painstaking excavations, archaeologists…
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Ancient City Dating Back 4,000 Years Unearthed in Iraq: The Discovery of Kunara In Iraqi Kurdistan, a team of French archaeologists discovered the ruins of a long-lost ancient city. The ancient city of Kunara, in the Zagros mountains, was discovered by…
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