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 who lived in these places and the descendants who still remember them. Their lives are the reason the ruins matter, because every wall and every buried tool was once part of someone's day.

Much of what we know about the distant past rests on a handful of excavations, scattered fragments and dates that keep shifting as new methods arrive, so the show tells you where the evidence is solid and where it is still a guess. New episodes arrive every Friday at 5 AM. Follow The Lost Ancients so you never miss an episode.

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