“Each suffered from prolonged periods of political instability coupled with environmental crisis.” Each one also offers lessons about how to live with other people, how to exist within the natural world, and how to adapt to shifting political landscapes and environmental conditions. The four ancient cities Newitz focuses on “shared a common point of failure,” they write. Those places, however, were more often simply abandoned: “The myth of the lost city obscures the reality of how people destroy their civilizations.” Some archaeologists claimed to have found so-called lost cities covered in sand or vines, a fate ripe for adventure stories and mythology. “It’s terrifying to realize that most of humanity lives in places that are destined to die,” Newitz writes. BOOK REVIEW - “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age,” by Annalee Newitz (W.
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