Apocalypse (eBook)

Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God

Amos Nur, Dawn Burgess (Autoren)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23698-8 (ISBN)

Infos

What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and historians believe, but in fact were laid waste by a force of nature so catastrophic that religions and legends describe it as the wrath of god? Apocalypse brings the latest scientific evidence to bear on biblical accounts, mythology, and the archaeological record to explore how ancient and modern earthquakes have shaped history--and, for some civilizations, seemingly heralded the end of the world. Archaeologists are trained to seek human causes behind the ruins they study. Because of this, the subtle clues that indicate earthquake damage are often overlooked or even ignored. Amos Nur bridges the gap that for too long has separated archaeology and seismology. He examines tantalizing evidence of earthquakes at some of the world's most famous archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Troy, Jericho, Knossos, Mycenae, Armageddon, Teotihuacan, and Petra. He reveals what the Bible, the Iliad, and other writings can tell us about the seismic calamities that may have rocked the ancient world. He even explores how earthquakes may have helped preserve the Dead Sea Scrolls. As Nur shows, recognizing earthquake damage in the shifted foundations and toppled arches of historic ruins is vital today because the scientific record of world earthquake risks is still incomplete. Apocalypse explains where and why ancient earthquakes struck--and could strike again.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 98 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: 1906 San Francisco earthquake • 1923 Great Kanto earthquake • 1927 Jericho earthquake • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake • 1st Century BC • Active fault • Aegean Sea • alluvial fan • Anaximander • Archaeological Site • archaeology • archaeoseismology • arson • Ashdod • Battle of Armageddon (Left Behind) • Bedouin • bone fracture • Bronze Age • Carbon-14 • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • catastrophism • Cave of Letters • Church of the Holy Sepulchre • Commercial Property • Conflagration • Convergent boundary • crisis of faith • Dead Sea • Dead Sea Scrolls • Dead Sea Transform • Destruction layer • disaster • Earthquake Engineering • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute • Earthquake location • embellishment • epicenter • Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 • Essenes • Fault (geology) • foreshock • geologist • Geology • God • Harry Fielding Reid • Heinrich Schliemann • Herod the Great • Hittites • Homer • Human sacrifice in Aztec culture • Intifada • Jared Diamond • Kathleen Kenyon • Kyushu • landslide • legendary creature • liquefaction • mass hysteria • Mercalli Intensity Scale • Moment magnitude scale • Mycenae • Nahal • natural disaster • Plate Tectonics • Pottery • P-wave • Qumran • Radiocarbon Dating • Respite (law) • Resurrection of Jesus • Revolution • Richter magnitude scale • Roman Empire • San Andreas Fault • Sea Peoples • Sediment • Seismic hazard • Seismic moment • Seismic risk • Seismic Wave • Seismite • Seismology • Seismometer • Shanidar Cave • Shear zone • societal collapse • Stratigraphy • Strong Ground Motion • Suggestion • The Other Hand • The Remains • thrust fault • Tiryns • transform fault • Trojan War • Tsunami • Tsunami deposit • Types of volcanic eruptions • war • water level
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23698-4 / 0691236984
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23698-8 / 9780691236988