John Julius Norwich's Cities That Shaped the Ancient World PDF

By John Julius Norwich

ISBN-10: 0500252041

ISBN-13: 9780500252048

whilst did people first come jointly in towns and what have been they prefer to reside in? Illustrated with unbelievable images of the websites of old towns at the present time, in addition to fantastic gadgets and artistic endeavors, this booklet presents a desirable exploration of towns that formed the traditional global.

From the world's first towns, in Mesopotamia, to the dazzling city monuments of the Maya in significant the USA, the towns defined right here symbolize nearly 3 millennia of human historical past and improvement.

Under John Julius Norwich's specialist editorship, eminent historians and archaeologists with first-hand wisdom of every website convey those silent ruins to existence because the teeming metropolises they as soon as were.

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