The Phoenix Companion

A city named after a bird reborn from ashes, built atop the canals of a civilization that vanished centuries earlier, and desert sunsets that never disappoint --- Arizona's Valley of the Sun, with room to make it yours. The Phoenix Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: Why Phoenix Is Named After a Civilization That Vanished Centuries Before It. Modern Phoenix sits atop the ruins of an ancient civilization that engineered hundreds of miles of irrigation canals through the desert, then mysteriously disappeared, centuries before the city's founders arrived.