TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerr-Jarrett,Andrew
ED  - Reader's Digest Association
TI  - Vanished civilizations
SN  - 0276426584
AV  - CB311 .V35 2002
U1  - 930 VANI 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London, Sydney
PB  - Reader's Digest Association
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - fast
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Cities and towns, Ancient
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index; Timelines across history -- Discovering the past -- Çatal Hüyük: a sophisticated Stone Age settlement -- The spread of agriculture -- Susa: home of the Elamites -- Saqqara: life in the Old Kingdom -- Mari: the lost city of Mesopotamia -- Harappa: advanced planning on a vast scale -- The first towns -- Ur: a city known to Abraham -- Knossos: luxury in the land of the minotaur -- Mycenae: the melting pot of ancient Greece -- Ugarit: at the crossroads of the ancient world -- The written word -- Amarna: capital of heretic pharaoh -- Hattusas: heart of the Hittite Empire -- Anyang: a Chinese capital in the Bronze Age -- Nineveh: a symbol of Assyrian power -- Early warfare -- Babylon: the city of Nebuchadnezzar -- Tarquinia: an Etruscan city-state -- The Heuneburg: a mysterious Celtic fortress -- Perepolis: a royal capital of the Persian Empire -- Carthage: gateway to rich western trade -- Pazyryk: the frozen tombs of the Altai -- Preserved through time -- Olympia: site of the Grecian games -- Pataliputra: the largest jewel in India's crown -- Mount Li: an army on parade for 2,000 years -- Delos: the birthplace of Apollo -- Petra: desert home of a trading empire -- Ancient trade routes -- Qumran: a settlement near the Dead Sea -- Nimrud Dagh: a royal sanctuary in Anatolia -- Pompeii: the resurrection of a city -- From tents to palaces -- Lugdunum: the little Rome of imperial Gaul -- Hatra: a holy city in a hostile desert -- Sipán: lords of gold and sacrifice -- Constantinople: the city of the emperor Justinian -- Chang'an: heart of the Celestial Empire -- Birth of technology -- Nara: a Japanese capital of Chinese culture -- Tikal: temples in a tropical forest -- Angkor: the Khmer jungle capital -- Pagan: the city of temples -- Ife: Africa's city of the gods -- Pueblo Bonito: a settlement lost in the desert -- Chanchan: a target of the Inca conquest -- Tenochtitlán: a city surrounded by water
N2  - Provides information on the history, culture, and archaeology of forty cities and other locations of the ancient world
ER  -