Fall of Civilizations Book

Fall of Civilizations will now be available as a book, coming April 2024 with Duckworth Books.

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, the Fall of Civilizations book 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.

Pre-order links: https://linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations

Fall of Civilizations Book pre-order links:

Blackwell’s (US and Worldwide free shipping)

Amazon (UK)

Waterstones

Bookshop.org

Pages of Hackney (indie)

Episode one of Fall of Civilizations is now live!

Episode 1 of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast is now live!

A vast ruined bath house, a fire-damaged poem and a world teetering on the brink of collapse.

In this episode, we look at the collapse of Roman Britain. Find out how a great civilization grew up almost overnight on the island of Britannia, how it endured the test of centuries against barbarian invasions and foolish rulers, and what happened after its final dramatic collapse.

Coming soon to iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify.

Current ways to listen below:

YouTube

Soundcloud