This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfal…
In-depth description and discussion of over two thousand brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories found in archaeological digs in London.
This important volume describes the art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.
Carthage is mainly known as the city that was utterly destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC. This book tells the story about this fascinating city, which for centuries was the centre of a far-flung trade network in the Mediterranean. Carthage was founded by Phoenician migrants, who …
Tell el-Dabʻa
by Aston, David A., Bader, Bettina, Bagh, Tine, Bietak, Manfred, Boessneck, Joachim, Czerny, Ernst, Driesch, Angela von den, Forstner-Müller, Irene, Fuscaldo, Perla, Habachi, Labib, Hein, Irmgard, Jánosi, Peter, Kopetzky, Karin, Kunst, Günther Karl, Lehmann, Manuela, Maguire, Louise C., (Louise Clare), Müller, Vera, (Egyptologist), Philip, Graham, Schiestl, Robert, Wilfing, Harald, Winkler, Eike-Meinrad
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Textile production reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy at the transition between the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, shedding light on both the process of technological deve…
"In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, ' commonly regarded as the archetype …
