Author: John Julius Norwich

Publisher: Thames and Hudson

Publication year: 2014

Number of pages / Dimensions: 240 / 25,50x19,50

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-0-500-5204-8

The cities of the ancient world built the foundations for urban life today. But when did humans first come together in this way and what were these places like to live in? From the world’s first cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban monuments of the Maya in Central America, the cities described here represent almost three millennia of human history and development. Under John Julius Norwich’s expert editorship, eminent historians and archaeologists with first-hand knowledge of each site give voices to these silent ruins, bringing them to life as the teeming, state-of-the-art metropolises they once were.