Lost City Of Pompeii
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Author | : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Describes the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.
Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher | : Collins Educational |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Pompeii (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 9780007461875 |
"What happened to the busy city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago?"--Cover [4]. This book gives facts about the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried this city.
Author | : Colin Amery |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 9780892366873 |
"Richly illustrated with historical images and new images of the site by acclaimed photographer Chris Caldicott, The Lost World of Pompeii tells the fascinating story of the ghosts of a bygone era raised from the ashes."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Time Life Education |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809498628 |
Recounts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city of Pompeii under volcanic ash, describes what daily life was like in the city, and discusses the excavation of the archaeological site
Author | : Mary Beard |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0674045866 |
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Here, acclaimed historian Beard explores what kind of town it was, and what it can reveal about "ordinary" life there.
Author | : Salvatore Nappo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Pompeii (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 9788880955306 |
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 | : Emidio De Albentiis |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892369418 |
The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, have provided invaluable evidence of daily life, not only in Rome's provinces, but in its larger urban centers as well. This book provides a fascinating look at how ancient Romans interacted in their public squares and marketplaces, how they worshipped, decorated their homes, and spent their leisure time--at the theater, in the gymnasium, and in the baths and brothels. Illustrated with photographs of architectural remains and exquisite details from a range of ancient artworks, including wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and carved reliefs, the book offers a glimpse into a lost world.
Author | : Alex Butterworth |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466860642 |
***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print book.*** The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer volcano. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster, Pompeii recreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth.
Author | : Museum Victoria Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 9780980619003 |
The eruption - Lost, preserved, recovered - Businesses - The town - Medicine - Food & dining - Private residences - Luxury & beauty - Relgious beliefs - Burial practices - Body casts - Vesuvius through the ages.