The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in…
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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities.
It is a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. The ruins of many of them still enchant us.This book tells the story of the rise and fall of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages. Its focus is on the ancient Mediterranean: Greeks and Romans at the centre, but Phoenicians and Etruscans, Persians, Gauls, and Egyptians all play a part.
The story begins with the Greek discovery of much more ancient urban civilizations in Egypt and the Near East, and charts the gradual spread of
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