Les Maisons de Campagne Romaines Sous La R publique Et l'Empire
by Edmond Courbaud
This informative publication is a continuation of the series documenting The Metropolitan Museum of Arts excavations at the Middle Kingdom Egyptian site at Lisht. This volume covers the relief decoration from three different locations or structures. These reliefs furnish a welcome addition to the little-known relief decoration of pyramid temples of the Middle Kingdom. Presenting previously unpublished materials and including informative, high quality photographs of the relief blocks, this essent...
Lisht, twenty miles south of Cairo, has been the site of excavations since its discovery in 1906, and since that time scholars at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have published a series of volumes about this Middle Kingdom site. This new book in the series "Egyptian Expedition Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art" focuses on the architecture of the pyramid complex of King Amenemhat I, which was built on a foundation using Old Kingdom blocks. The publication brings together new in...
An Introduction To The Study Of The Middle Ages 375 To 814
by Professor Ephraim Emerton
The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851, the palace of Darius was partly excavated over the next century. But it was only field research between 1969 and 1979 by the noted French archaeologis...
The Emperor Hadrian was arguably the first classicist, captivated by a classical past and society he could already identify as something apart. In this one-volume history of the ancient world up to his death, Robin Lane Fox traces the development of classical civilisation from its origins in the 9th century BC to the height of the Roman Empire. Over this period the classical world bore witness to many dramatic changes, and this is a lively introduction to its highest points and a riveting explor...
Familienpropaganda Der Kaiser Caligula Und Claudius (Antike Munzen Und Geschnittene Steine, #8)
by Walter Trillmich
Great Pyramid Operations Manual
by Franck Monnier and David Lightbody
The Great Pyramid Manual takes the technical description and historical interpretation of the last ‘Great Wonder of the Ancient World’ to the next level. Lavishly illustrated with the most accurate architectural diagrams and three-dimensional reconstructions currently available, the book pays tribute to the greatest iconic work of human culture. The Great Pyramid was the world’s tallest monument for nearly 4,000 years. Until the 19th century, it was also the heaviest structure ever built. It was...
The Light of Kailash. A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet (Light of Kailash, #3)
by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000 years ago, and the extraordinary figures of Ain Ghazal. It examines in depth the creativity that gave identity to ancient Egypt, where colossi of powerful rulers were also matched by the depictions of citizens and the wider population. From there, we explore the unprecedented art of the Greek revolution, where beauty a...
Roman Domestic Buildings (Exeter Studies in History)
From the hovels of peasants to the palaces of monarchs, this book provides an architectural picture of Roman society through a study of domestic buildings.
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Translated by Richard Crawley)
by Thucydides
The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century....
Published in Chinese, using rich images and illustrations plus insight and commentaries from leading Chinese experts, this book reveals and explores the finest buildings from the Three Kingdoms, Western & Eastern Jin Dynasties, Northern & Southern Dynasties Period, & the Sui-Tang Period in China. The large A4 format ensures the splendour of the wonderful buildings examined in this book is captured in their rightful glory. Part of Paths International's Ancient Chinese Architecture History series...