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Hieratic Texts from Tebtunis
ISBN: HB: 9788763546768, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates
This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis – hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narrative, scholarly compositions, and documentary texts – as well as a survey of illustrated papyri.Nearly...
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£56,00
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History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules
ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...
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£40,00
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Herakleides A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9781606060360, Getty Publications, February 2011
104 pp., 23.6x18.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This is a fascinating multi-disciplinary study of the mummified remains of a young man who died nearly 2,000 years ago in Roman Egypt. Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost two thousand years ago. This multidisciplinary...
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£18,99
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Herculaneum Women And the Origins of Archaeology
ISBN: HB: 9780892368822, Getty Publications, February 2008
160 pp., 25.4x19 cm, colour illus.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, three life-sized marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This momentous discovery led to further exploration of the site, which was soon identified as the ancient city of Hercu...
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£40,00
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Houses and Monuments of Pompeii The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini
ISBN: HB: 9780892366842, Getty Publications, March 2006
224 pp., 36.9x26 cm, 270 colour illus.
The discovery of and excavation at Pompeii in the second half of the 18th century not only provided historians with a trove of information about ancient Roman civilization but also fired artists' imaginations and inaugurated the vogue for "Pompeian s...
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£60,00
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