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“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.”— The Gospel of Thomas What if the earliest teachings of Jesus—preserved in ancient manuscripts unearthed in the Egyptian desert after being banned by early Church authorities—reveal a radically different...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.