Cities began in different ways. Some stood at the crossroads of caravan routes, others rose in deserted deserts. There are fortified cities, barracks cities, cities that grew up around river piers or seaports, monasteries, factories or markets. Sinful Babylon and holy Jerusalem, eternal Rome and forbidden Lhasa, business Geneva and carnival Rio, mysterious Chichen Itza and hospitable Paris, high-mountainous La Paz and Amsterdam conquered from the sea... A new book from the “100 Greats” series will tell about the history and fate of how disappeared cities of antiquity, as well as those that carried their unique appearance through the centuries.