Cities of the Ancient World

From Uruk and Jericho to Athens and Rome, explore ancient urban landscapes and draw connections between the cities of centuries past and those of our modern world.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Lure of the City
• 02: Catalhoyuk-First Experiment in Urban Living
• 03: Jericho and Its Walls
• 04: Uruk-City of Gilgamesh
• 05: Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
• 06: Kahun-Company Town in the Desert
• 07: Work and Life at Deir el-Medina
• 08: Amarna-Revolutionary Capital
• 09: Knossos-Palace, City, or Temple?
• 10: Akrotiri-Bronze Age Pompeii
• 11: Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon
• 12: Athens-Civic Buildings and Civic Identity
• 13: Athenian Domestic Architecture
• 14: Hippodamian Planning-Miletus and Ephesus
• 15: Olynthus-A Classical Greek City Preserved
• 16: Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria
• 17: Pergamon-The New Theatricality
• 18: The Good Life in Rome
• 19: The Lives of the Poor in Rome
• 20: Ostia-Middle-Class Harbor Town
• 21: Timgad-More Roman Than Rome
• 22: Karanis-On the Fringes of the Empire
• 23: Constantinople-The Last Ancient City
• 24: Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life