John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities
that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations - and which in
turn have shaped our own. The cities of the ancient world built the
foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in
architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them
today. But what was it like to live in Babylon, Carthage or
Teotihuacan? From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the
spectacular urban monuments of the Maya in Central America, the
cities explored here represent almost three millennia of human
history. Not only do they illustrate the highest achievement of the
cultures that built them, but they also help us understand the rise
and fall of these ancient peoples. Eminent historians and
archaeologists with first-hand knowledge of each site give voices
to these silent ruins, bringing them to life as the teeming,
state-of-the-art metropolises they once were.
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