Babylon was not simply built. It was imposed.

Raised from mud and water, ordered by ritual and repetition, it became a city that expected obedience and assumed endurance. Walls, symbols, and law worked together to give Babylon a singular confidence: that it would remain, long after those who shaped it were gone.

From the narrow Siq to the Treasury and the Monastery, Petra tells the story of a civilisation that thrived in one of the harshest landscapes on Earth. This is the history, engineering and wonder behind Jordan’s most ancient city.

On Turkey’s Aegean coast lies Ephesus — the city that became time itself. Once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it rose and fell with empires, leaving behind marble streets, grand theatres, and whispers of gods and emperors.

Walk through the dust of kings and the silence of ziggurats. In Ur, memory is carved in clay and shadow, where the past still whispers through every ruin.

Discover one of the world’s oldest cities — where civilisation began.