A Cultural Encyclopedia Of Lost Cities And Civilizations

Author : Michael Shally-Jensen,Anthony Vivian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216182832

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A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations by Michael Shally-Jensen,Anthony Vivian Pdf

This volume explores the span of human history-and plenty of prehistory-searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof. The accelerating threat of climate change challenges us to analyze our own communities' relationships with the wider world and to contemplate their very existence. This single-volume cultural encyclopedia examines lost cities and civilizations from every region of the globe and dated throughout human history. Arranged alphabetically, the compilation allows both students and general readers easy access to detailed entries on specific lost cities and civilizations. Throughout the geographically and chronologically diverse entries, such themes as colonization, migration, and especially climate change are developed and analyzed. Supplementing the main entries are sidebars detailing mythological cities and Investigative Boxes examining present-day cities on the brink of extinction. These round out the book's focus on disappearing cultural centers and reveal the robust relevance this material has to a world facing the crisis of climate change.

Author : Michael Pye,Kirsten Dalley
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448892518

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Lost Cities and Forgotten Civilizations by Michael Pye,Kirsten Dalley Pdf

Cosmology, the mysteries of the pyramids, ancient nuclear weapons, Atlantis, and the role of our government through history all come together in this book.

Author : Annalee Newitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393652673

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz Pdf

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 : John Harrison Linsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 186106019X

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Lost Cities and Civilizations by John Harrison Linsley Pdf

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015020676881

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Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations by Robert Silverberg Pdf

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 : Maria Teresa Guaitoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 0760783772

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Lost Cities by Maria Teresa Guaitoli Pdf

"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 : Maria Teresa Guaitoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : OCLC:1150227222

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Lost Cities by Maria Teresa Guaitoli Pdf

Author : Brenda Rosen
Publisher : Godsfield
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1841813273

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Atlas of Lost Cities by Brenda Rosen Pdf

Some of the most extraordinary ancient cities that have been abandoned, forgotten, or hidden by time are now revealed in their full splendor. Examining the role of natural and man-made disasters, rulers and their hostile neighbors, and the fate of cities built to celebrate religious beliefs, this fascinating volume features stunning photography of major archaeological sites and recently discovered cities. Detailed reconstructions and maps trace the lost beauty and ancient wisdom embodied in the Borobodur in Java, Aphrodisias in Turkey, and Niya in Central Asia. An illuminating and thought-provoking work that builds on the recent success of numerous bestsellers about how and why ancient civilizations fail, it will prove an invaluable reference.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 019512541X

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Finding the Lost Cities by Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

Explores twelve archeological "lost cities," with accounts of site discovery and investigation of the meaning of recovered objects.

Author : Ann Weil
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410998460

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The World's Most Amazing Lost Cities by Ann Weil Pdf

Which explorer discovered Machu Pichu? What really happened to Angkor? Does the lost city of Z really exist? To find out the answers to these questions and more, open this book and go on an exploration of the world's most amazing landmarks!

Author : Leonard Cottrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Extinct cities
ISBN : UOM:39015007179883

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Lost Cities by Leonard Cottrell Pdf

Author : Levy Joel
Publisher : New Holland Australia(AU)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 1847739911

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Lost Cities of the Ancient World by Levy Joel Pdf

This work surveys 28 lost cities. It reveals the stories behind metropolises such as Petra, the rock-carved rose city in the desert of what is now Jordan, and Great Zimbabwe, the capital of the once-mighty southern African Shona empire.

Author : David Hatcher Childress
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0932813259

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Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean by David Hatcher Childress Pdf

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.

Author : Ann R. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1426221983

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Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs by Ann R. Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 1921569212

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Vanished Civilizations by Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty, Limited Pdf

Vanished Civilizations brings to life 40 of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known, with over 370 lavish illustrations, including detailed maps and specially commissioned photographs and reconstructions. This is a superbly researched timeline of global events and achievements dating from 10,000 B.C.