Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs

Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs
Author: Ann R. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781426221989

Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City of the Monkey God" tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that illuminate our past. Archaeology is the key that unlocks our deepest history. Ruined cities, golden treasures, cryptic inscriptions, and ornate tombs have been found across the world, and yet these artifacts of ages past often raised more questions than answers. But with the emergence of archaeology as a scientific discipline in the 19th century, everything changed. Illustrated with dazzling photographs, this enlightening narrative tells the story of human civilization through 100 key expeditions, spanning six continents and more than three million years of history. Each account relies on firsthand reports from explorers, antiquarians, and scientists as they crack secret codes, evade looters and political suppression, fall in love, commit a litany of blunders, and uncover ancient curses. Pivotal discoveries include: King Tut's tomb of treasure Terracotta warriors escorting China's first emperor into the afterlife The glorious Anglo-Saxon treasure of Sutton-Hoo Graves of the Scythians, the real Amazon warrior women New findings on the grim fate of the colonists of Jamestown With a foreword from bestselling author Douglas Preston, Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs is an expertly curated and breath-taking panorama of the human journey.

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Author: Annalee Newitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 039365267X

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.

Splendors of the Past

Splendors of the Past
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

EXPLORES LOST CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast

Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast
Author: Mallory McCane O'Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813013503

O'Connor describes over 20 sites of Mississippan culture including Cahokia.

Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean

Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
Author: David Hatcher Childress
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1996
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780932813251

Atlantis! The legendary lost continent comes under the close scrutiny of archaeologist David Hatcher Childress. From Ireland to Turkey, Morocco to Eastern Europe, or remote islands of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, Childress takes the reader on an astonishing quest for mankind's past. Ancient technology, cataclysms, megalithic construction, lost civilisations, and devastating wars of the past are all explored in this amazing book. Childress challenges the sceptics and proves that great civilisations not only existed in the past but that the modern world and its problems are reflections of the ancient world of Atlantis.

The Lost City of the Monkey God

The Lost City of the Monkey God
Author: Douglas Preston
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1455540021

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

Discoveries: Petra

Discoveries: Petra
Author: Christian Auge
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000-05-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810928961

"Petra's mysterious beauty and dramatic story have long captivated the imaginations of historians and art lovers. Recent excavations by the archaeologists Jean-Marie Dentzer and Christian Auge provide new information about this city, unique in history."--BOOK JACKET.

Lost

Lost
Author:
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781849767330

A charming story about feeling alone, looking for what you think has been lost, and finding your way home again After venturing outside to find someone to play with, an inquisitive black cat gets lost in the city. He dreams of finding his family again but is convinced he has become invisible. Will anyone come looking for him? Journey through stunning cityscapes and dreamscapes in an uplifting story of lost and found, hope and love.

Lost Cities

Lost Cities
Author: Giles Laroche
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1328753646

Describes life in settlements from the Temple of Karnak in ancient Egypt, Herculaneum, and Great Zimbabwe to Fatepur Sikri in India and Jamestown, Virginia, and explains how they became lost cities, how they were found, and what is unusual about them.