Newitz ruminates on the experiences of “Dido,” a woman whose skeleton was found in Çatalhöyük, and the prostitutes who lived in the only “purpose-built brothel” in Pompeii Newitz also recounts elaborate construction projects undertaken by Angkor’s kings and human sacrifices offered on large, earthen mounds in Cahokia.
Spotlighting Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic city found in present-day Turkey the southern Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in 79 CE by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Angkor, the capital of the medieval Khmer Empire in Cambodia and pre-Columbian Cahokia in what’s present-day Illinois, Newitz visits each site and interviews archaeologists to explore how residents of these cities lived and died.
Science journalist Newitz ( Scatter, Adapt, and Remember) examines the rise and fall of four ancient cities that “suffered from prolonged periods of political instability coupled with environmental crisis” in this energetic and intriguing account.
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