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.
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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.
Author | : Ann Weil |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1410942392 |
Looks at ten of the most distinctive lost cities, from the legendary Atlantis to the ancient city of Petra that was rediscovered by Europeans in the early 19th century.
Author | : Maria Teresa Guaitoli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9781435148482 |
Author | : Guy, John |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-04-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588395243 |
A fresh and exciting exploration of Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century, seen through the lens of the region's sculpture
Author | : Maria Teresa Guaitoli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780760783771 |
"The cities of antiquity, where civilization took root and developed to create great empires and cultures, are considered by experts to be the sacred places of historical science: these sites and the unstinting work of archaeologists have made it possible to piece together the history of famous civilizations and examine their ancient art, thereby restoring to humanity fragments of our lost treasures and the memory of the remote past." -- Cover, page 4.
Author | : Robert Silverberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
The author has chosen the ancient cities of Pompeii, Troy, Angkor, Knossos, Babylon and Chichén Itzá, tells what they were like in ancient times, and recounts the stories of the discoverers and scientists of modern times who unearthed them.
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.
Author | : Philip Matyszak |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2023-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0500778698 |
A fascinating tour of cities that have been lost to history—from the Neolithic period to the late Roman Empire—that offers a fresh perspective on the roots of urban life. The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? That have been submerged under water, or swallowed up by the sands of time? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past? In this compendium of forgotten cities, Philip Matyszak exploresthe trials, tribulations, and triumphs these cities faced, revealing how people have embarked on the shared endeavor of living together since we first settled down twelve thousand years ago. Illustrated throughout with important artifacts, ruins, and maps, Lost Cities of the Ancient World brings to life the sites and settlements across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond that time forgot, from the sunken city of Pavlopetri in the Mediterranean to the deep cave dwellings of Derinkuyu in Turkey. Four thousand years of human history are covered in this volume, offering unique insights into forgotten cities and ways of life. Matyszak reveals a dynamic network of peoples and cultures who fought and traded between themselves, exchanging inventions, ideas, and philosophies, with the result that people as far apart as Catalhöyükin Turkey and Skara Brae in Scotland’s Orkney Islands shared a common heritage. By examining the motivations that first drew populations to gather and settle together, as well as the challenges that led to their cities’ abandonment, this visually striking and often surprising book offers us a fresh perspective on our urban origins.
Author | : |
Publisher | : National Geographic Society |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
EXPLORES LOST CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.