Jericho, Troy, Babylon, Thebes, Carthage - this is not a complete list of those miracle cities that, having disappeared, turned into ghosts, keeping many secrets of antiquity. All that remains of these cities are names and ruins. People from different countries make pilgrimages to the excavations of Carthage, Troy, Babylon, Persepolis, Mycenae, Palmyra...

The book contains a chronicle of archaeological discoveries, the history of the founding, glory and death of the centers of ancient civilizations, a wide panorama of what they breathed , how their inhabitants looked, acted and believed.