Great Cities Of The Ancient World by L. Sprague de Camp
A lively, accessible survey of the great urban centers of antiquity that reconstructs how they were founded, planned and governed, describes their monuments, markets, religious and civic institutions, and evokes the daily lives of their inhabitants, and explains the economic, military and environmental forces that brought them prosperity and, in many cases, decline; drawing on archaeology and ancient texts, the book compares city-building traditions across civilizations to illuminate the contributions of these ancient metropolises to later urban development.
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