Fall of Civilizations

Stories of Greatness and Decline

New Hardback Illustrated

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In 1625 an Italian nobleman stumbled across the remains of a city in Mesopotamia and brought cuneiform tablets back to the western world that revealed evidence of the earliest human civilization. Beginning with the Sumerians in 4000 BCE, Paul Cooper explores some of the large and organized societies from human history whose collapse saw the social fabric disintegrate and populated areas abandoned.

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