Kourion: the search for a lost Roman city / David Soren and Jamie James
1988, 1st Edition. New York: Anchor Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #341637
ISBN: 0385241410
Physical description: xi, 223 pages, [16] p. of plates: ill. (some col.); 24 cm. Summary: On the morning of July 21, A.D. 365, a colossal earthquake hit the eastern Mediterranean and destroyed much of the ancient world, hitting the Cypriot city of Kourion especially hard. It remained under tons of rubble for two millennia. This book chronicles Soren's and his team's excavations and reconstruction of this city as well as details of the earthquake, which took place just as Christianity was becoming established and may have played a part in the end of Roman civilization. Subjects:
Romans Cyprus Kourion (Extinct city). Earthquakes Cyprus Kourion (Extinct city). Excavations (Archaeology) Cyprus Kourion (Extinct city). Cyprus Antiquities, Roman.
Price: €10.95