The Lost Ancients
Creators Obomedia
Wind moves over a city half buried in desert sand, and somewhere beneath it a stone doorway has waited thousands of years for someone to find it. The Lost Ancients is a podcast about lost civilizations, ancient sites and ancient artifacts, from the first builders of the Stone Age to the great cultures that vanished. Who built these places, how did they do it, and why did the world forget them?
Here you follow the builders and rulers of the ancient world, and the explorers and scholars who staked their names on what those people left behind. Every episode brings the pull of a mystery that keeps opening as each new clue comes out of the ground. Each one is a real story told from the first stone laid to the latest find, with suspense, dry humor and honesty about the evidence. Every episode is a complete story, so you can start with any one of them.
The show also follows the ordinary people of the ancient world, the workers who cut and hauled the stone, the families