#ancientcities — Public Fediverse posts

Ghadames is an ancient desert city designed for survival, blending architecture and culture across centuries. Why did such an advanced oasis settlement fade into near abandonment today?
#AncientCities #DesertLife #HiddenHistory #Architecture #WorldHistory
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/ghadames-libya-s-pearl-desert-001779

A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess

A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess

A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess

A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess

A hidden sand layer beneath Assur’s Ishtar Temple dates the city to nearly 2900 BCE and reveals ritual choices linking geology, belief, and urban origins in early Mesopotamia. #Archaeology #Assyria #AncientCities #Ritual https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bed-of-sand-for-a-goddess

"Oral, archaeological, and written evidence all show that large populations survived in all of these places by adjusting how they lived, by creating smaller scale societies that in many ways worked better for people and their environments."

#KathleenDuVal discusses her book #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica

https://www.youtube.com/live/GIL2bpOj70s?t=1101s

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AncientCities #AncientAmericas #Cahokia #Hohokam #MedievalWarmPeriod #LittleIceAge #books @bookstodon

Ancient North American #Cities and Why People Abandoned Them

"#KathleenDuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. [..] Her latest book is #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWKSbSh1uw&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #CityStates #AncientCities #Cahokia #Hohokam #FirstNations #FirstPeoples #MedievalWarmPeriod #books

#LettersAndPolitics