History of Lost Cities: Machu Picchu, Meroë, Mohenjo-Daro (Sleep Story)
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History of Lost Cities: Machu Picchu, Meroë, Mohenjo-Daro (Sleep Story)

2026-08-16
In this bedtime story, I tell you about three “lost cities” and the civilizations that built them: • Machu Picchu, built as a retreat for Inca emperors 50 miles from their capital, Cusco, and largely forgotten by the outside world for more than 300 years. • Meroë, the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, along with a brief history of Nubia and its relations with Egypt in antiquity. Before Meroë became the capital, Nubian kings from Kush founded Egypt’s Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, and during the first m...
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