In this small book Leonard Cottrell traces the history of ten lost cities of the Ancient World, their birth, the people who lived in them and how they were rediscovered in our own day.

The cities include Babylon, once the greatest and richest city in Western Asia; Nineveh, capital of the Assyrians; and Ur of the Chaldees. Moving westward Cottrell tells of Pompeii, the city that died of one volcanic catastrophe and was preserved; then takes us to the New World to conjure up the magnificent Maya and Inca cities that flourished centuries ago.

LOST CITIES--an enthralling narrative that captures all the romance and excitement of the great civilizations of the past.