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 8 Amarna—Revolutionary Capital
0.00 30 minutes Deliberately created as a capital city near the center of the kingdom, Amarna served as an administrative and religious center designed to redirect political authority to the pharaoh, Amenhotep IV. Study some of the most iconic images from ancient Egypt and unpack the relationship between city planning and the social structure.
