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Ancient Thai Beads From U-Thong to Dvaravati
ISBN: HB: 9786167339887, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2021
220 pp., 22.2x17.5 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In the pre-historic period in the archaeology of Thailand, beads are among the most exciting finds. Easily transportable, hard and durable, one bead can provide a mass of information. Usually found as part of grave assemblages, the quantity of beads...
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After Vesuvius Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri
ISBN: HB: 9781606065921, Getty Publications, July 2019
296 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1...
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Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781933789378, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and other narratives,...
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£26,00
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Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings
Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....
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Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...
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Amaravati The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context
ISBN: PB: 9780861592074, Casemate, British Museum Press, October 2016
152 pp., 29x21 cm, 170 illus.
Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stupa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha fr...
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Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.
This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization The Evolution of an Urban Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780226142371, ISBN: HB: 9780226013770, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 9 maps, 6 line drawings, 1 figure, 1 table
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization", owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millen...
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Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables
Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...
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American Egyptologist The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
ISBN: PB: 9780226045344, ISBN: HB: 9780226001104, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
536 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 4 maps, 128 halftones
James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tom...
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