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 6 Kahun—Company Town in the Desert
0.00 30 minutes Enter the world of ancient Egypt during the peaceful era of the Middle Kingdom. Here in the desert, paid laborers built tombs and temples for the pharaohs. To house the laborers, the Egyptians built Kahun, a planned city whose walls and layout reinforced the system of social class and served as a means of control over the population.
