Apocalypse : : Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God /

Apocalypse : : Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God / / Amos Nur, Dawn Burgess.

What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and historians believe, but in fact were laid waste by a force of nature so catastrophic that religions and l...

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Nur, Amos,
Burgess, Dawn,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 98 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 King Agamemnon's Capital
  • Chapter 2 How Earthquakes Happen
  • Chapter 3 History, Myth, and the Reliability of the Written Record
  • Chapter 4 Clues to Earthquakes in the Archaeological Record
  • Chapter 5 Under the Rubble: Human Casualties of Earthquakes
  • Chapter 6 Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Destruction That Preserves
  • Chapter 7 Expanding the Earthquake Record in the Holy Land
  • Chapter 8 Earthquake Storms and the Catastrophic End of the Bronze Age
  • Chapter 9 Rumblings and Revolutions: Political Effects of Earthquakes
  • Chapter 10 Earthquakes and Societal Collapse
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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