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Splendors of the past : [electronic resource] lost cities of the ancient world / prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : The Society, c1981.Description: 295 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cmISBN:
  • 0870443585
  • 9780870443589
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930 19
LOC classification:
  • CB311 .S735
Other classification:
  • 21.73
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Foreword -- An introduction : cities lost and found / by John Carswell -- The Sumerians of Mesopotamia ; The royal cities of Solomon / by Seymour L. Fishbein -- Pompeii : city sealed in time / by Thomas O'Neill ; photographed by David Hiser -- The mysterious kingdom of Kush / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by Michael S. Yamashita -- Angkor and the ancient Khmer / by Louis de la Haba -- The Hittites of Asia Minor / by Louis de la Haba ; photographed by Mehmet Biber -- Land of the Sinhalese Kings / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by David Hiser.
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"Additional reading": p. 295.

Includes index.

Foreword -- An introduction : cities lost and found / by John Carswell -- The Sumerians of Mesopotamia ; The royal cities of Solomon / by Seymour L. Fishbein -- Pompeii : city sealed in time / by Thomas O'Neill ; photographed by David Hiser -- The mysterious kingdom of Kush / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by Michael S. Yamashita -- Angkor and the ancient Khmer / by Louis de la Haba -- The Hittites of Asia Minor / by Louis de la Haba ; photographed by Mehmet Biber -- Land of the Sinhalese Kings / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by David Hiser.

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