Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz

Book Overview

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 ?atalh?y?k in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast, the medieval...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393882454
• ISBN13: 9780393882452
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"