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 – ...

Near Alexandria in Egypt, this lost city was once an ancient place of pleasure, but today, it lies beneath the waves of the ...

An ancient Roman city featuring a forum and a monumental theater has been discovered near Italy's Appian Way. Researchers ...

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The Yale Art Gallery holds some treasures from an ancient city in Syria, where many religions flourished side by side, including a new one called Christianity. The city was attacked, abandoned, and ...

Archaeologists have been very busy excavating lost civilizations, but they haven't found everything. There are still prominent ancient cities, including capitals of large kingdoms and empires, that ...