The great megalithic monuments of Brittany and Ireland, Etruscan necropolises, the Treasury of Agamemnon, the Great Pyramid of Cheops, the tomb of Tutankhamun, the Terracotta Army of the Qin Dynasty, and the tomb of the Lord of Sipan: this extraordinary book visits every corner of the Earth in its journey into the cities of death, and in search of the understanding of life among lost civilizations and their relationship with the afterlife.