Fall of Civilizations

Stories of Greatness and Decline

By: Paul Cooper

Narrated by: Paul Cooper

"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."-The Times

Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.

Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.

As good as the podcast!

I have been listening to this authors podcast for years. He does such great work and I loved listening to this. Whenever I am stuck at what to listen to I go back to this audiobook.

New fave book to tell people about

It's all in the title. Loved the book, great entertaining and informative listen. The podcast is great too!

Captivating

Really in depth storytelling I was captivated by the stories of long distant civilizations and really enjoyed the narration.

19 to 20 hours of the most horrific torture of human beings and descriptions that you could get

shorter than the episodes that were on TV however if you are not familiar with the podcast on YouTube definitely read the book or have the book read to you because you're a lazy bastard that doesn't want to read and then listen to the podcast and you two can have a YouTube PhD in ancient history

Great audiobook

If you’ve been following his podcast series you’ll find this to be very interesting! Shortened version of each stories from his series. It’s a great audiobook and really helps you gain perspective on modern life, to see that the issues we face today are not that different from ancient times. Highly recommend for history lovers!