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The Most Intriguing Places of the Ancient World

Martin Zimmermann

Haunted Houses, Hanging Gardens, and the Ends of the Earth

Forget everything you think you know about the ancient world and prepare yourself for a journey to the pleasure gardens and ancient libraries of the Middle East, to golden horse stables in Pharaonic Egypt and haunted houses in Athens, to pirate towns in the mountains and to the center of the world and finally to one particular place in the far west, where you will swear that you hear a hiss, when the sun sinks into the sea!

This book will take you far beyond well-known sites like the Roman Forum and the Acropolis to hidden parts of the ancient world. Among them is the once powerful Eridu, which the Sumerians considered the city of the world, as well as Megalopolis, which seems just as unsettling as the vacant megacities in today’s China. Near Alexandria, you can seek out the lost tomb of the Egyptian ruler Cleopatra – a symbol of one of the great love stories in human history. Another strange place well worth a visit is the city of elephants in the Near East, where tens of thousands of animals were bred, because the surrounding kingdoms wanted to equip their armies with them. In this unique, clever, and entertaining guidebook, Martin Zimmermann, expert on Antiquity, introduces the reader to these and many other unusual places of the ancient world.

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Published by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406727047

Main content page count: 336 Pages

ISBN: 9783406727047