A Cultural Encyclopedia Of Lost Cities And Civilizations

Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations written by Michael Shally-Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1448892511
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities and Forgotten Civilizations written by Michael Pye and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195125412
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding the Lost Cities written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores twelve archeological "lost cities," with accounts of site discovery and investigation of the meaning of recovered objects.

Author : Annalee Newitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039365267X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age written by Annalee Newitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Harrison Linsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861060198
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities and Civilizations written by John Harrison Linsley and published by . This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Teresa Guaitoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities written by Maria Teresa Guaitoli and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hatcher Childress
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932813251
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Maria Teresa Guaitoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760783771
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Cities written by Maria Teresa Guaitoli and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Brenda Rosen
Publisher : Godsfield
ISBN 13 : 9781841813271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Lost Cities written by Brenda Rosen and published by Godsfield. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.