Finding the lost cities
Histoire, Archéologie, Art de vivre, Histoire ancienne
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Describes twelve lost cities on five continents in the order of their rediscovery in modern times: Petra, Nineveh, Hattusha, Copan, Chaco Canyon, Angkor, Troy, Zimbabwe, Knossos, Gournia, Machu Picchu, and Ur. Provides the history of each site, biographical sketches of… the finders and archaeologists who worked there, and theories about why the city disappeared. For junior and senior high readers