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Vanished Civilizations: [the Hidden Secrets of Lost Cities and Forgotten Peoples] by Reader's Digest Association is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 -- Ancien

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Author

Reader's Digest Association

Publisher

London ; New York : Reader's Digest

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780276426582

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Sociology

Rating

4.39 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14