
The death of a city is not always a deliberate destruction of a city through war. It is also a recurring disruption within longer urban histories in which human societies repeatedly erase, rebuild, and transform their built environments.
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Palmyra’s funerary portraits allow us to gaze upon a desert city’s elite and explore how they used sculpture to negotiate identity, power, and change across centuries of trade and empire.
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Excavations at Jerash’s “peripheral” Northwest Quarter reveals how everyday domestic life, industry, and innovation were woven into the city’s fabric before being abruptly frozen by the earthquake of 749 AD.
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Archaeology can be transformed through archival research. Like the unboxing of Harald Ingholt’s Palmyra archive, it can reveal how stored notes, photographs, and drawings preserve and reshape the study of an ancient desert city.
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The suburbs and their sprawl might feel like a modern development, but recent archaeological research suggest that cities and countryside often blended into something known as “patch urbanism.”
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Archaeology of ancient cities reveals how urban life, not rural necessity, inspired innovation through the dense networks of people, skills, and exchange that come together in urban centres.
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Humans have had to live alongside rats for millennia, and archaeology can study these little vermin to uncover how ancient cities lived, traded, and changed over time.
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Archaeology reveals how ancient urban life was sustained and shaped by visible and hidden green spaces, from elite villas to public parks and buried traces of cultivation within city fabrics.
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This show centers on urban history, archaeology, and the long arc of how cities form, transform, and endure. Across recent episodes, the host guides listeners through in-depth explorations of ancient urbanism, the social and material fabric of cities, and how archives, artifacts, and monuments illuminate everyday life in the past. Notable threads include Palmyra and Jerash, the ethics and logistics of cultural heritage, the role of archives and museums in shaping narratives, and the way coastal, desert, and urban environments interact with trade, technology, and governance. Unique strengths lie in a cohesive, scholarly approach that blends archaeology, architectural history, and urban theory with accessible storytelling, making it appealing... more
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