Botteghe Romane (Vita E Costumi Nel Mondo Romano Antico, #27)
by Grazia Grimaldi Bernardi
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. A Hellenistic foundation later held by the Parthians and then the Romans, Dura had a Roman military garrison installed within its city walls before it was taken by the Sasanians in the mid-third century. The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses is the first study to consider the houses of the site as a whole. The houses were excavated by a team from Yale and the French Academy...
First published in 1964, Ancient Iraq is the classic work on Mesopotamia and the great civilizations that sprung from the region bounded by the Euphrates and Tigris. It remains an invaluable primer for anyone fascinated by the extraordinary ruins and artworks which have emerged from generations of archaeological digs. The book gives a lively, comprehensive account, from the earliest city fragments through the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians through to its decline under Hellenisti...
Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia (Harvard Theological Studies, #4) (Harvard Theological Studies (HUP))
This volume brings together studies of Ephesos--a major city in the Greco-Roman period and a primary center for the spread of Christianity into the Western world--by an international array of scholars from the fields of classics, fine arts, history of religion, New Testament, ancient Christianity, and archaeology. The studies were presented at a spring 1994 Harvard Divinity School symposium on Ephesos, focusing on the results of one hundred years of archaeological work at Ephesos by members of t...
Archæological and Historical Collections Relating to Ayrshire Galloway (Classic Reprint)
by Ayrshire and Galloway Archa Association
Bulletins Et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 1903, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
by Societe D'Anthropologie De Paris
Finds from Medieval York (Archaeology of York S., AY 17/15)
Boinn: the goddess of the river Boyne and the Milky Way (Mythical Ireland Monograph, #2)
House X at Kommos (PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS, #35)
House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement that later became the site of a Greek sanctuary. Situated on the seacoast of the western Mesara Plain, Kommos faces west toward the Libyan Sea. House X stands on the southern edge of the Minoan town, separated by a large slab-paved road from the monumental civic buildings built and used between the Protopalatial and Postpalatial periods. The description...
Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul, Volume 1 (Princeton Legacy Library, #1)
by R. Martin Harrison
This work is the first volume of two that will be the full report of major excavations carried out by Dumbarton Oaks and the Istanbul Archaeological Museum at Sarachane in the heart of ancient Constantinople. This volume includes discussion of excavation and stratigraphy; catalogs of sculpture, revetment, mosaic, small finds and other materials: and general treatment of architecture, sculpture, and history of the site. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...
"Comprehensive study of 282 examples permits classification, description, and interpretation of mummification techniques and of details of health, diet, technology, settlement, and society between 5000 and 1700 BC. Argues that mummification was invented in Arica-Camerones region to insure continuity of life in the context of environmental uncertainty"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Guide to Inverness Museum and Surrounding District (Classic Reprint)
by Thomas Wallace
Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit, Prolegomena
by Et Al, Thomas Pratsch, and Professor of Medieval History Ralph-Johannes Lilie