Fun fact about Machu Picchu. This ancient Incan city was unknown to the outside world until 1911, when it was discovered by explorer Hiram Bingham. #AncientCities #IncanEmpire #xplrnow Image Credit:@intoperu on instagram
A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess
A Bed of Sand for a Goddess

How an unexpected layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple rewrites the city’s beginnings and exposes the ritual logic of its founders

Anthropology.net
Fun fact about Teotihuacan Pyramids. The Pyramid of the Sun is aligned with the setting sun on the day of the solar equinox. #AncientCities #MesoamericanMysteries #alwaystrvlng Image Credit:@danedvrk on instagram
First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe

An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads.

Ars Technica

"Oral, archaeological, and written evidence all show that large populations survived in all of these places by adjusting how they lived, by creating smaller scale societies that in many ways worked better for people and their environments."

#KathleenDuVal discusses her book #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica

https://www.youtube.com/live/GIL2bpOj70s?t=1101s

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AncientCities #AncientAmericas #Cahokia #Hohokam #MedievalWarmPeriod #LittleIceAge #books @bookstodon

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

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From Athens to Jericho, from Byblos to Varanasi, the world’s oldest cities are still alive. Visiting them is the closest we get to time travel. History still breathes here.
#AncientCities #WorldHistory #TravelThroughTime #OldestCities #LivingHistory #Archeologyfinds#Ancienthistory#Storytelling#DidYouKnow#HistoryFacts#DocumentaryShort#WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/11-most-ancient-and-continually-occupied-cities-world-009522

AO THROWBACK - Franck Goddio the hunter of lost cities discovered the long-lost sunken city of Heracleion after years of systematic research off the coast of Egypt. https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-archaeology/ancient-egyptian-mythical-city-raised-depths-all-its-glory-00391

#archaeology #ancient #history #AncientOrigins #historymatters #historylovers #historyfacts #mythology #Archaeology #AncientCities #SunkenTreasure

Nestled in the lush foothills of the Andes, Pikillacta is a place that often slips under the radar for travelers heading straight to the Inca wonders. But this ancient city, built by the Wari civilization long before the Incas rose to power, is a fascinating window into Peru's pre-Inca past.
Source:https://kenkoadventures.com/
#Pikillacta #WariCivilization #PeruHistory #PreIncaRuins #Cusco #AncientCities #Archaeology #HiddenGems #PeruTravel
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Exciting discoveries in the Amazon! Archaeologists have uncovered ancient 'garden cities' using 3D mapping, revealing thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests.

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Amazon #Archaeology #AncientCities
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/06/ancient-garden-cities-amazon-indigenous-technologies-archaeology-lost-civilisations-environment-terra-preta

Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards

The Guardian