On Our Dying World Cities

"Primitive human conditions slowly thrust up through the highly civilized mode of living"

The oldest “artificial” city in the world was the city of Akkad, in the sense that it was the first city to be established by a single man, namely, the Semitic ruler Sargon of Akkad (2334-2279 BC). (This is about a thousand years before the pharaoh Akhenaten created the utopian city of Amarna, which lasted only 13 years). Mesopotamia, which begins with …