A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinsons Organic...

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Kwame Adebayo

A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinsons Organic remains of a former world, and Artiss Antediluvian phytology.

Name: A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinsons Organic remains of a former world, and Artiss Antediluvian phytology.
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ISBN: 9789374127537

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Alpha Editions
30 September 2025

Atlases (Children's&YA)

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What if the world's most powerful civilisations were not the ones you learned about in school? Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, entire empires once rivalled Rome, Persia, and China-yet today they survive only as ruins, faint names, or footnotes. Their stories hold urgent lessons for the present: how power is built, why it collapses, and why memory itself decides who is remembered and who is erased. This book takes you from the forgotten empires of the Kushan along the Silk Road to the stone stelae of the Axumite kingdom, from the hydraulic genius of the Khmer empire Angkor to the mountain cities of the Zapotec civilization. Along the way, it reveals how trade, religion, climate, and culture shape destinies-and how fragile the foundations of power really are. For readers fascinated by history, culture, and the archaeology of lost kingdoms, this is more than a tour of ruins. It is an inquiry into why some powers endure in memory while others vanish, and what that means for the fragile systems we inhabit today. By the end, you will see history differently-not as a steady march of progress, but as a shifting landscape where endurance is rare and the rise and fall of empires is the rule, not the exception. The lessons of these lost worlds are not distant curiosities; they are warnings, insights, and guides for the age we live in now.

By: Kwame Adebayo
Imprint: Alpha Editions
ISBN: 9789374127537
ISBN 10: 9374127539
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active