Die seltsamsten Orte der Antike

Forget everything you think you know about antiquity and prepare for a journey to gardens of love and ancient libraries of the East, to golden stables in pharaonic Egypt and haunted houses in Athens, to pirate cities in the mountains and to the center of the world! Beyond the Roman Forum and the Acropolis, there are places that no Latin teacher has ever mentioned. Among them is the once-powerful Eridu, considered by the Sumerians to be the original city of the world, as well as Megalopolis, which seems as foreign as the abandoned megacities in today's China. But the tomb of the Egyptian ruler Cleopatra in Alexandria - a symbol of one of humanity's greatest love stories - is also one of those strange sites worth discovering. The same goes for the city of elephants in the Middle East, where tens of thousands of these animals were bred.