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	LOST CITIES (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lost cities and ancient mysteries of Africa and Arabia.
		Lost cities of Asia: Ceylon, Pagan [and] Angkor.
		Lost cities of Atlantis, ancient Europe and the Mediterranean.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=LOST+CITIES (115 words)

	Lost Cities of Tarzan
		The movie’s version of the lost city consisted of only a single pyramid, and was inhabited by a race of fl sorcerers, even though Burroughs never including sorcery or mysticism in his novels at all.
		Xuja is a lost city in Africa that lies in an elevated desert in the remote mountains of Tanganyika.
		Cathne and Athne are twin rival cities in the lost valleys of Thenar and Onthar in the Ethiopian highlands.
	panthers.pnc.edu /sphill01/lost_cities_of_tarzan.htm (3234 words)

	Hittites - Crystalinks
		Given the casual tone in which the Hittites are mentioned in most of these references, Biblical scholars before the age of archaeology traditionally regarded them as a smaller tribe, living in the hills of Canaan during the era of the Patriarchs.
		The history of the Hittite civilization is known mostly from cuneiform texts found in the area of their empire, and from diplomatic and commercial correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and the Middle East.
		Though it remained for his heir, Mursili I, to conquer that city, Hattusili was clearly influenced by the rich culture he discovered in northern Mesopotamia, and founded a school in his capital to spread the cuneiform style of writing he encountered there.
	www.crystalinks.com /hittites.html (2810 words)

	Lost City Resources and References Page
		In the case of the most ancient cities, the mystery of their deaths may never be solved.
		Their great cities, left to the forest, soon crumbled and vanished only to be discovered by the Spanish hundreds of years later.
		According to traditions the city was constructed by a group of white skinned-strangers with beards.
	www.tylwythteg.com /lostcity/lostcity.html (1110 words)

	Ancient Lost Civilizations
		In 1984, the lost city of Ingrejil was discovered in the northern Ingrejil mountains of Bahia state.
		From this point, a smaller party left the main expedition after spotting two white men with long, dark hair and beards (and dressed in European clothing!) paddling a canoe at the mouth of a large bay formed by the river.
		We have resolved not to communicate it to any person, as we think whole towns and villages would be deserted; but I impart to your Excellency tidings of the mines which we have discovered in remembrance of the much that I owe you.
	www.rickrichards.com /ac/ac3e.html (1583 words)

	ART OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS By Maximillien de Lafayette
		Not until 1936 was the first systematic and scientific excavation of an edifice or a fortress of that lost civilization begun.
		In the same epoch the land of Arartu was called the birthplace of humankind, the font of civilization, and to travel there and back, a person had to "go by land, return by water", which perfectly describes the mountainous and river terrain in Armenia).
		Before Urartu were the Nairi, before the Nairi the Metsamor Kingdom, and before that untold numbers of now anonymous kingdoms and states that sprung from the Indo-European race born on the Armenian Plateau, spreading their language, ethnic identity and the secrets of bronze, iron and astronomy to both Asia and Europe.
	www.internationalnewsagency.org /Urartu.htm (2762 words)

	The Hollow Earth, Subterranean Civilizations, Agartha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I know there are ancient tunnel systems and buried cities beneath the surface of the planet in which many people chose to dwell, but that is not related to entire civilizations with advanced cultures.
		There is supposedly a civilization of people living in the center of the Earth in a place called Agartha.
		Agartha is one of the most common names cited for the society of underground dwellers is Agharta (or Agartha) with its capital city of Shambala.
	www.crystalinks.com /underciv.html (2619 words)

	Lost Civilizations VHS 10 Video Set Time-Life Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Time Life's Lost Civilizations, escape into the mystery and wonder of the vanished cultures as Time-Life's Video and Televisions Lost Civilizations opens a window on the past unlike anything you've ever experienced.
		Reclaiming their past from a long tradition of racial prejudice and neglect, the descendants of these lost cultures are only now discovering the extraordinary achievements of Africa's indigenous civilizations.
		Then, witness the incredible engineering feat that is the fabled Machu Picchu, lost centuries until an American archeologist fought his way through the jungle and uncovered its majestic beauty in 1911.
	www.travelvideostore.com /product_3715.html (2172 words)

	NEXUS: Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries
		Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth is Childress' thorough examination of the early hollow earth stories of Richard Shaver and the fascination that fringe fantasy subjects such as lost continents and the hollow earth have had for the American public.
		Childress challenges the skeptics and proves that great civilizations not only existed in the past, but the modern world and its problems are reflections of the ancient world of Atlantis.
		According to ancient records, the patriarchs and ounders of the early civilizations in Egypt, India, China, Peru, Mesopotamia, Britain, and the Americas were the Serpents of Wisdom - spiritual masters associated with the serpent - who arrived in these lands after abandoning their beloved homelands and crossing great seas.
	www.nexusmagazine.com /products/ancmysts.html (4807 words)

	Amazon.com: Finding the Lost Cities: Books: Rebecca Stefoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The romance of "lost cities" is fully present in the discussion of 12 sites, arranged chronologically by date of discovery, from 1812 through the 19th century.
		What is known about the civilizations as a result of both excavation and painstaking research is given, as are theories about the abandonment and disappearance of the cities.
		Stefoff chronicles the discoveries of ancient cities, from the Americas to Africa to the Middle East, that were either lost or unexplored in modern times.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/019509249X?v=glance (1134 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / “…and the mound-builders vanished from the earth”
		Mexico and South America had yielded stone temples and golden cities, but here in the north was, seemingly, a continent only of woods and plains, inhabited by simple huntsmen and equally simple sedentary farmers.
		It was the myth of the Mound Builders, a lost race of diligent and gifted artisans who had passed across the scene in shadowed prehistory, ultimately to be exterminated by the treacherous, ignorant redskinned savages who even now were causing so much trouble for the Christian settlers of the New World.
		The cities of Egypt and Assyria were being exhumed; the Neanderthal skull had been found, transforming man’s view of his past; Heinrich Schliemann was planning his excavation of Troy.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1969/4/1969_4_60.shtml (5315 words)

	Lost Civilizations
		What proof White had was lost when a “friend” with whom they left several artifacts, as well as gold and jewels, disavowed any knowledge of these artifacts.
		Returning to Death Valley on what was to be their fourth trip to the lost city, the explorers found a drastically changed area.
		Perhaps someday some of the lost artifacts will surface, until then the claims of giant mummified human remains seem to be the most verifiable of the discoveries.
	home.rconnect.com /~arcanaresearch/id6.html (2660 words)

	The UnMuseum - Lost Cities
		On the other side of the canyon was an immense cave cut into the cliff wall, and inside that cave was what looked like a palace.
		It was the lost city of Mesa Verde we now call Cliff Palace.
		They never came back, though, and all that is left of their culture is the silent cities in the Mesa Verde cliffs.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /lostcity.htm (1495 words)

	From Cthulhu to Cloning
		When the stars were wrong they could not live, so they vanished beneath the ocean or returned to their home worlds where they used telepathic powers to communicate with man. Central to Lovecraft's mythos, the Old Ones formed a cult and a religion which worshipped the aliens as gods.
		In those books Hancock laid out his Temple- and von Däniken-inspired theory that the ancient marvels, like megalithic Tihuanaco and the Pyramids, were the work of a lost civilization which vanished with the Ice Age.
		The authors now claimed that the lost civilization could have been destroyed by an asteroid during a meteor shower which also wiped out Martian civilization.
	jcolavito.tripod.com /lostcivilizations/id1.html (4263 words)

	Municipium Iasorum
		The Aorsi*, living mainly to the east of the Volga, were the most remote...A branch of the Aorsi (probably fugitives from the main group) settled west of the Volga, around the lower Don...
		In the middle of the 1st century AD the Aorsi lost their leading position among the Eastern Sarmatian and were replaced by the Alans.
		On two lost tombstones it is apparently called an ala (RIB 594,595), and on a dedication it is called numerus equitum Sarmatorum Bremetennacensium (RIB 583).
	www.acronet.net /~magyar/english/96-10/szarme.htm (5888 words)

	Lost Civilizations
		These accounts are the only known written records which refer specifcally to a lost civilization called Atlantis.
		Still others maintain that the story is an accurate representation of a long lost and almost completely forgotten land.
		Although some misguided scholars have attributed the buildings of Tiahuanaco to the Incas, it has now been established that the city was already in ruins when the first Incas came upon the scene.
	www.dark-skies.com /lost (1328 words)

	Amazon.de: Mara and Dann: An Adventure: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As Mara and Dann walk the length of the land, Lessing takes the opportunity to comment on the lost cities and vanished civilizations whose remains dot the landscape.
		As the characters move North on their quest, they pass through many cities, towns, and villages.
		There are frontier cities where money is still the most important thing and women can be won and lost at dice.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/006093056X (1279 words)

	The Book Tree · Lost Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LOST CITIES OF ATLANTIS, ANCIENT EUROPE and THE MEDITERRANEAN, by David Hatcher Childress.
		Ancient technology, megalithic construction, lost civilizations and devastating wars of the past are all explored.
		LOST CITIES OF ANCIENT LEMURIA and THE PACIFIC, by David Hatcher Childress.
	www.thebooktree.com /lost_cont_atlantis.html (1948 words)

	Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations by Robert Silverberg
		Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations by Robert Silverberg
		POMPEII — proud city of the Caesars preserved in its last agonized moment of life by a sudden torrent of volcanic ash.
		Here are Robert Silverberg's fascinating stories of six great civilizations that lived and died as long as 7000 years ago and the men who helped to rediscover them.
	www.majipoor.com /work.php?id=678 (191 words)

	Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg, a science fantasy book
		It is one of his companions, the beautiful Carabella, who holds him close as uneasy dreams unsettle his sleep, and when the dreams become more threatening it is another companion, a mystic dwarf, who helps him solve the mystery of who he is and hence he came.
		Follow Valentine as he joins a motley band of jugglers to seek the secret of his lost past across a wide and wondrous world.
		In the shattered city of the Shapeshifters, in the temple of the Lady of Sleep and the Isle of the King of Dreams.
	members.aol.com /tishede/silverberg.htm (1272 words)

	Mimosa 28, pages 81-83. "A Child's Garden of Rockets" by Mike Glyer
		If someone regards the Hugo Award as the epitome of their career in science fiction, it is best he separate the idea of the Hugo from the physical Hugo, which is often a leaky Grail, at best.
		Back when I thought Robert Silverberg's best-known book was Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, a fourth-grader reading about ancient mysteries never to be solved, I learned frustration over the fiery destruction of the Library of Alexandria and delivered this childlike criticism: if only people had been more careful!
		Larry Niven was up for three Hugos at MidAmeriCon in 1976, and he won Best Novelette for "The Borderland of Sol." They held the ceremony in a Kansas City auditorium where the winners, after coming onstage to receive their rockets, returned to their seats by a circuitous backstage route.
	www.jophan.org /mimosa/m28/glyer.htm (1886 words)

	Shop A&E and The History Channel : Lost Cities DVD
		It is one of the most enticing myths from the Spanish conquests of the New World, the explorer Cristol Pedraza's tales of the "White City," a gold-laden center of an undiscovered empire.
		Then, we'll chronicle one of the most important archeological discoveries of the past century--a Mayan city known as Indian Hill.
		Join LOST CITIES for an extraordinary journey that sheds light on the glories of long vanished empires.
	store.aetv.com /html/product/index.jhtml?id=74952 (279 words)

	Lost Civilizations Inca Secrets Of The Ancestors, VHS, Time-Life Video and Telev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Join researchers as they unravel the puzzle of the Nazca, creators of the earth-drawings once believed to be the workings of extraterrestrial beings.
		Discover the exquisite gold artifacts of the Moche, all that remains of a highly developed society that vanished centuries ago.
		Then, witness the incredible engineering feat of the fabled Machu Picchu, lost for centuries until an American archaeologist fought his way through the jungle and uncovered its majestic beauty in 1911.
	www.travelvideostore.com /product_4008.html (282 words)

	Find in a Library: Lost cities and vanished civilizations.
		Find in a Library: Lost cities and vanished civilizations.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/5282cb4ef799df1e.html (44 words)

	Amazon.com: Mara and Dann: An Adventure: Books: Doris Lessing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is a world in which all scientific knowledge has been lost and in which there is no more room for culture or art.
		There are cities which were once splendid and now have either turned into ruins or have been submerged by floods.
		Mara and Dann belong to the civilization that rose from the devastation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006093056X?v=glance (2636 words)

	Silverberg's non-fiction
		It is also the story of the grandeur that was Akhnaten's Egypt, a land where men, released from the bondage of a fear-laden religion, produced a magnificent civilization.
		POMPEII--proud city of the Caesars preserved in its last agonized moment of life by a sudden torrent of volcanic ash.
		The semi-nomadic Indians appeared to have no knowledge of their origin--nor did these "savages"seem to the nineteenth century white man capable of the organized effort and geometric complexities demonstrated by the mounds.
	www.owmyhead.com /silverberg/oldsite/silvnonf.htm (1217 words)

	Silverberg bio
		Robert Silverberg was born in New York City on 15 January 1935 to Michael and Helen Silverberg, an only child.
		He tends to keep his personal life to himself, but he has made allusions to being a lonely and bitter child who found a release of a sort in science fiction and fantasy.
		Special thanks to Ben Adams for graphic assistance, and to Robert Silverberg for information and approval (as well as for all the great writing that made it possible).
	www.owmyhead.com /silverberg/oldsite/silvbio.htm (1582 words)

	Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men Movements Infos
		Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men Movements Infos
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		Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men Movements
	www.booksbestsellers.com /31877_lost-cities/leonard-cottrell.html (37 words)

	Marshall Books
		Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations, Robert Silverberg, Bantam, 1962, $3.00
		Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian text transliteration and translation, E. Wallis Budge Dover, 1967, unabridged replication of the work originally published in 1895 by order of the Trustees of the British Museum.
		Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay, LL.D., Bibliophile books, reprint from 1874.
	www.geocities.com /marshallbooks (2336 words)

	Cobblestone & Cricket: Correlations for CA Grade 6
		Ancient Civilizations I Theme Pack> (Boxed set of 9 issues with teacher's guide.
		Ancient Civilizations II Theme Pack (Boxed set of 9 issues with teacher's guide.
		Ancient Civilizations III Theme Pack (Boxed set of 9 issues with teacher's guide.
	www.cobblestonepub.com /resources_TchgCAGR6.html (402 words)

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