![]() ![]() It was uninhabitable for a long time to come. Vesuvius exploded in 79CE, covering the city in super-heated ash. The second lost city is one you’ve probably heard of: Pompeii. People started moving elsewhere when the 8.2 kilo-year climate shift happened, to where they could grow food more easily. So, everyone was making their own bread, tending their own farms, gathering their own food, burying their own dead. ![]() I mean, it’s a large gathering of people who seem to live permanently together, but there’s little evidence of serious coordination of effort. This is a ruin of a city that is so old that it’s impossible to tell if it really was a city. ![]() She is looking, I think, to explain how different cities exist, but also about how they end. Four Lost Cities is a book about, well, four cities that are supremely different than they once were, if they’re even still with us at all. ![]()
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