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The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
Life in Ancient Greece (2019) Ruby Tuesday Books. ISBN 978-1788560405; M I Finley: An Ancient Historian and His Impact (2016) Cambridge University Press. Edited Volume (Co-editor with Prof Robin Osborne and Daniel Jew). ISBN 9781107149267. Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West (2016) Hutchinson/Windmill. ISBN 978-0091958817.
Tunturia's album Invisible City (2012) is an instrumental concept album that follows six stages of the rise and fall of Kitezh. A fictionalized version of Kitezh is rediscovered by the protagonist Lara Croft in the 2015 video game Rise of the Tomb Raider developed by Crystal Dynamics .
Surviving late Roman examples of descriptiones include Ausonius's Ordo Nobilium Urbium, a fourth-century Latin poem that briefly describes thirteen cities including Milan and Bordeaux. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Rutilius Namatianus 's De reditu suo is a longer poem dating from the early fifth century that includes a section praising Rome .
Various Oz Books: The Emerald City is the capital of the Land of Oz. It is entirely (in the first books) or mostly (in later books) green. The city is made of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels. Emminster, South Wessex Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Wessex: Correlates to the real-life Beaminster, Dorset. Emond's Field Robert Jordan: New Spring
In 2022, Morales-Aguilar was part of a team of researchers that used LiDAR to uncover a vast site in northern Guatemala, with hundreds of ancient, interconnected Mayan cities, towns and villages ...
6 ancient cities, stacked on top of each other, reveal thousands of artifacts in China. Aspen Pflughoeft. October 11, 2022 at 4:01 PM. Screengrab from Xinhua News Agency's Facebook.
Pages in category "Lost ancient cities and towns" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 638 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .