Let's take a tour of this ghost town in the Arctic. Frozen in time, the communist coal-mining settlement of Pyramiden was abandoned more than two decades ago following a devastating ...
Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of ...
The settlement— known as Dur-Sharrukin —is located at the site of present-day Khorsabad, a village in northern Iraq. It was ...
The partially destroyed settlement was home to 3,000 people before economic decline chased residents out nearly 90 years ago.