{"product_id":"ancient-worlds-9780241951361","title":"Ancient Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles''s \u003ci\u003eAncient Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e tells the epic story of civilization, and the cities that made us who we are.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. Here Richard Miles reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its most glorious and terrible people and places: from the first ever city in Mesopotamia to the death cults of Egypt, from the Phoenician seafarers who invented the alphabet to the brutal Assyrian empire, and on to the great city-states of Athens and Rome. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  By choosing to live together with strangers in vast urban settings, Miles shows, humans harnessed the very best and the worst of ourselves, setting civilization in motion and forging the modern world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''Epic and compelling''\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''An epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe''\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpic and compelling * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eEngaging ... full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, and the new ways of living it permitted * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eAn epic, spanning five millennia and half the globe * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAncient Worlds really does put flesh on the bones of history and Richard Miles brings long lost cities to life * Observer *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138110816599,"sku":"9780241951361","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241951361.jpg?v=1751918031","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-worlds-9780241951361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}