| Management number | 240145101 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | $12.40 | Model Number | 240145101 | ||
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<p>A forgotten chapter of human history may be hiding in plain sight-not in secret vaults, but in the oldest stories ever told. Across continents, civilizations preserved the same haunting pattern: a world that once thrived, a sudden catastrophe of water, fire, and darkness, and scattered survivors forced to rebuild from fragments. This book follows the trail where geology and myth overlap-drowned coastlines, abrupt climate shocks, and the global memory of endings that refuse to die. Through a gripping, evidence-minded narrative, it explores how cataclysms can erase entire landscapes, scramble the archaeological record, and leave behind only the most durable artifact of all: story.</p><p>From the "flood that swallowed the first world" to legends of burning skies and long dark ages, these traditions begin to look less like fantasy and more like compressed memory-warnings carried forward across millennia. Blending deep-time climate history, collapse dynamics, and the logic of lost coastlines, this book asks a provocative question: what if civilization has restarted more than once? Powerful, cinematic, and relentlessly thought-provoking, it reframes prehistory as a cycle of rise, rupture, and return-and leaves you looking at ancient ruins, sacred time, and humanity's future with new eyes.</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | History |
| Pages | 324 |
| Subgenre | Ancient |
| Series title | Ancient Civilizations and Mysteries |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Alistair Ravenhurst |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 8.50 x 0.68 x 11.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.66 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | History |
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