Paul Cooper: Fall of Civilizations

Name: Paul Cooper: Fall of Civilizations
Start: 2025-04-01T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-01T20:00:00+01:00
Location: 53-62 South Bridge,Edinburgh,EH1 1YS,GB

Schedule

Tue Apr 01 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

53-62 South Bridge,Edinburgh,EH1 1YS,GB | Edinburgh, SC

The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome to the crumbling suburbs of Detroit, the vine-wreathed temples of the Maya to the shell-pocked buildings of Bakhmut and Gaza. Each of these ruins has a different history, but all of them are places where, one day, the future ended.
Join historian Paul Cooper on Tuesday 1st April at 7pm as he tells the stories behind our greatest civilizations, how they rose to power and what life was like for the people who witnessed their downfall, in his new book Fall of Civilizations . Based on the critically acclaimed podcast, this extraordinary book turns a clear eye on to humanity’s past mistakes – and whether we are doomed to repeat them.