Ep. 131 Lost Cities Part 1: How Ancient Metropolises Have Been Forgotten to Some and Rediscovered

We'll be visiting 8 lost cities over the next couple of weeks! This week we'll journey to an ancient city of mythic proportions that most thought to be fictional until it was actually discovered in the mid 1800s: Troy of Homer's Iliad fame. Next we'll make our way to southern Pakistan to explore the ruins of the completely unknown and yet stunningly advanced city of Mohenjo Daro. Then we'll hop the pond to the jungles of Guatemala to get lost in the sprawling Maya capital city of El Mirador. And finally, we'll revisit Pompeii, an ancient Roman time capsule completely preserved in volcanic ash.

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Sources:

• The British Museum "The search for the lost city of Troy"
• BBC "Did the Trojan War actually happen?
• BBC "Pakistan's lost city of 40,000 people"
• National Geographic "Recovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro"
• Smithsonian Magazine "El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya"
• Wikipedia "El Mirador"
• History Fix Episode 18 "Pompeii"

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