Ancient stalagmite provides insights into how climate affected early communities in cradle of civilization

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of ...
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Splendors of the past : lost cities of the ancient world / prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society

Foreword -- An introduction : cities lost and found / by John Carswell -- The Sumerians of Mesopotamia ; The royal cities of Solomon / by Seymour L. Fishbein -- Pompeii : city sealed in time / by ...
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Bible lands and the cradle of western civilization [map] / Compiled and drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society

Issued with the December 1938 National Geographic Magazine. Insets: Jerusalem.--The Holy Land from Dan to Beersheba.--Economic development.--Route of the Exodus.--St.Paul's Travels.--The ...