Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Lure of the City
- Season 1 Çatalhöyük—First Experiment in Urban Living
- Season 1 Jericho and Its Walls
- Season 1 Uruk—City of Gilgamesh
- Season 1 Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
- Season 1 Kahun—Company Town in the Desert
- Season 1 Work and Life at Deir el-Medina
- Season 1 Amarna—Revolutionary Capital
- Season 1 Knossos—Palace, City, or Temple?
- Season 1 Akrotiri—Bronze Age Pompeii
- Season 1 Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon
- Season 1 Athens—Civic Buildings and Civic Identity
- Season 1 Athenian Domestic Architecture
- Season 1 Hippodamian Planning—Miletus and Ephesus
- Season 1 Olynthus—A Classical Greek City Preserved
- Season 1 Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria
- Season 1 Pergamon—The New Theatricality
- Season 1 The Good Life in Rome
- Season 1 The Lives of the Poor in Rome
- Season 1 Ostia—Middle-Class Harbor Town
- Season 1 Timgad—More Roman Than Rome
- Season 1 Karanis—On the Fringes of the Empire
- Season 1 Constantinople—The Last Ancient City
- Season 1 Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life
Cities of the Ancient World - Season 1 Episode 16 Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria
0.00 30 minutes Built directly on the seacoast and a major transportation hub, Alexandria is the first massive, cosmopolitan city we know of in antiquity. Its lighthouse was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the variety of artists’ workshops and its ethnic diversity made Alexandria the Greek cultural center.
