文档介绍：Apocalypse
Q
i 9/10/2007 7:49:47 AM
A
Deaths per Earthquake
50 - 500
500 - 5000
5000 - 50000
50000 - 500000
500000 - 830000
B
San Francisco Rome Mycenae Tangshan
Lisbon
Troy Jericho Tokyo
TeotihuacTeotihuac·n·n Bam
Luxor Killari
Caracas
Sumatra
Lima
Lago Budi
Frontispiece. Geographic relation between earthquakes and archaeology: (a) the
most deadly earthquakes in the world between AD 1500 and 2000 (after Agnew
2001); (b) some of the cities and archaeological sites mentioned in this book
where earthquakes had a major impact on society.
ii 9/10/2007 7:49:48 AM
Apocalypse
Q
EARTHQUAKES, ARCHAEOLOGY,
AND THE WRATH OF GOD
Amos Nur
with Dawn Burgess
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
iii 9/10/2007 7:49:48 AM
Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire OX20 1SY
All Rights Reserved
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01602-3
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has posed in Sabon with Galahad Regular Display
Printed on acid-free paper. ∞
Printed in the United States of America
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
iv 9/10/2007 7:49:48 AM
And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called
Armageddon . . . and there came . . . a violent earthquake, such as had
not occurred since people were upon the earth, so violent was that
earthquake: And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities
of the nations fell. . . And every island fl ed away, and no mountains
were to be found.
—Book of Revelation, 16:18–20
Q
v 9/10/2007 7:49:48 AM
vi 9/10/2007 7:49:48 AM
CONTENTSQ
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
King Agamemnon’s