(Ebook) Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz ISBN 9780393652666, 9780393652673, 0393652661, 039365267X

(Ebook) Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz ISBN 9780393652666, 9780393652673, 0393652661, 039365267X

A fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history—and why they were all abandoned.Investigating across centuries and around the world, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient abandoned cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy's southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, & the indigenous metropolis Cahokia that stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.In Four Lost Cities, Newitz blends an engaging account of their travels to all four sites with an exploration of cutting-edge research in archaeology—including new discoveries about who lived in these cities and the tools they used to create monuments that lasted millennia. The result is a thrilling journey into the urban past that reveals the mix...ANNALEE NEWITZ is an American journalist, editor, & author of fiction & nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, & have written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, & the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 & served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008–2015, & then became Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo & Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, & Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda award.