Carthage, Tunisia the ancient civilization, was once a driving power in the Mediterranean. It controlled critical trade networks from Africa, including those that delivered the elephants and let Hannibal do…
Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC in the Parthian period and became the capital of the ancient Parthian empire. It is an ancient city that falls under the…
Throughout history, there have been mentions of numerous abandoned civilizations. Just like these civilizations, there are alot of cities that are left abandoned. There are thousands of abandoned enchanting places…
Architecture can define a place in terms of the lifestyle and routines of people. We can guess a timeline of the architecture of a specific region with the architectural features…
A deserted village which was destroyed by the natural disasters and the Plague. Craco is a haunted hill surviving amidst the chaos. Despite the residents abandoning the medieval town, the…
Akrotiri, a Bronze Age town on the present-day island of Thera in Greece, is one of the most intriguing archaeological discoveries in the world. Often dubbed as “Minoan Pompeii,” the…
Villa Epecuén, one of Argentina’s most popular spa towns, turned into a ghost town spending almost a quarter-century underwater. Flooded in the 1980s, the submerged town finally began to be…
Between the late 1920s and the end of the second world war, the Amazonie in Brazil has been home to one of Henry Ford’s utopian dreams of taming industry and…
Situated at the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, Pyramiden is an abandoned Soviet union settlement of coal miners. Pyramiden, if translated to English it means ‘pyramid’ named after the shape of…
The Indian subcontinent was home to some of the oldest civilizations. As history tells us, the vast fertile plains fed by numerous rivers gave way for the earliest examples of…
The legends of lost cities excite the adventure seeker in all of us. There is a sense of wonder and curiosity for such lore, be it the mythical Atlantis, the…
Located in Northern New Taipei in Taiwan lies a district called Sanzhi, an area that was originally a vacation beach resort built in 1978. Unlike the beach houses that usually…