What happened to the places that history forgot – the cities submerged under water, decimated by invading armies or swallowed up by the sands of time? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past?

From the sunken city of Thonis off the coast of Egypt to the deep cave dwellings of Derinkuyu in Turkey, Philip Matyszak brings to life the cities that time forgot, exploring sites from across Europe, the Middle East and Asia and covering four thousand years of human history.

Matyszak reveals a dynamic network of peoples and cultures who fought and traded between themselves, exchanging inventions, ideas and philosophies, with the result that peoples as far apart as Çatalhöyük in Turkey and Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands shared much of a common heritage. Where archaeological remains and artefacts have vanished completely, Matyszak turns to ancient texts to discover what happened to the cities that have never been found. The trials, tribulations and triumphs that they faced, including how they coped with the challenges of climate change, displacement and conflict, have lessons for the present.

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Lost Cities of the Ancient World
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— CHAPTERS —
00:00 Intro
00:51 What is your book about?
01:25 What are your criteria for a lost city?
02:48 Is there a link between any of those cities?
03:52 Why would a city become obsolete?
05:00 What came first, city or farming?
08:55 Why were cities founded?
09:45 Why did you choose to include a section of a modernday city?
10:20 Are there cities you now want to visit?
11:00 Do you have a favorite city you would like to visit?
12:09 What is special about Skara Brae?
15:30 What is special about Mycenae?
17:25 What is special about Stabiae?
20:27 Outro

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