ClickIn the deep waters near the Azores, where long ago Atlantis once shone, the night falls a little darker. Sailors claim they've seen the phantom continent emerge like mist from the waves. They also say it is haunted. The restless spirits that appear are not of warriors or philosopher kings, but of cities. The ghosts propel themselves across time and longitude to congregate on this ethereal landscape. Some were destroyed, some abandoned, others just faded from memory. Here they are reconstructed from the ether, a gathering of immortal skylines rising into glorious clarity. Samharkland, Pompeii, Hiroshima, Alexandria, Ur, Troy, Ulan Bator, Carthage, Subashi, Gomorrah, Ubar, Tell-El-Maskutah, Helice, Edo, Machu Picchu, Herakleion, Angkor Thom, Ephesus. There are others among them, municipalities unknown in history, places not of this earth. |