David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and 'An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist' is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.
Sie ist die älteste Darstellung des Himmels, ihre Entdeckung war eine archäologische Sensation: Die Himmelsscheibe von Nebra stammt aus keiner Hochkultur des Altertums, sie wurde im Herzen Europas gefunden.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des alten Ägyptens und entdecken Sie die Geheimnisse der Mumifizierung, die die alten Ägypter meisterhaft beherrschten.
En 1947 tuvo lugar el descubrimiento de los manuscritos del Mar Muerto, más de 800 papiros y pergaminos escritos en hebreo, arameo y griego entre el año 150 a.
El conocimiento de la historia y la literatura de Mesopotamia constituye el entramado necesario para la buena comprensión de la Biblia, especialmente del Antiguo Testamento.
Joaquín González Echegaray, arqueólogo de reconocido prestigio en los los estudios del Próximo Oriente, ofrece en esta obra una visión bien contrastada sobre las cuatro generaciones de la dinastía de los Herodes, personajes que estuvieron en contacto directo con Jesús y los primeros cristianos.
Para poder leer y comprender la Biblia, resulta hoy imprescindible conocer el mundo en el que se desarrollan los apasionantes relatos que allí se contienen.
Para poder leer y comprender la Biblia, resulta hoy imprescindible conocer el mundo en el que se desarrollan los apasionantes relatos que allí se contienen.
Los vestigios de la vida de los pueblos cazadores–recolectores que habitaron la región que hoy ocupa Coahuila, resultan parte invaluable del patrimonio cultural de la entidad.
Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece's Bronze Age to Rome's fall in the West.
Featuring over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece's Bronze Age to Rome's fall in the West.
Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600.
Recent books about Jesus and early Christianity can be divided into two kinds: those that examine the life and work of the historical Jesus prior to his death and those that reconstruct events between Jesus' death and the writings of the first Gospels.
This is the first full biography of James Rendel Harris (1852-1941), Bible and patristic scholar, manuscript collector, Quaker theologian, devotional writer, traveller, folklorist, and relief worker.
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.
First scholarly, multi-disciplinary re-assessment of Howard Carter's discovery and excavation of Tutenkhamun's tomb and the impact of the find on our understanding of the material culture of Ancient Egypt.
Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak.
Pamela Willoughby provides a wide-ranging synthesis of current knowledge about the evolution of fully modern humans in Africa during the Middle Palaeolithic / Middle Stone Age.
Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way.
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home.
This volume of the report on the excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates's Island, which is located on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds (including ostrich egg shells), and the other discoveries made at the site.
This book is the first of a two-volume final report on the excavation of the Minoan cemetery and associated finds at Livari Skiadi in the southeastern end of Crete.
Desde una perspectiva compleja, este documento piensa primero en la comunidad actual del lugar (la cuenca media del río Pasaje o Juramento, ubicada en el sureste de la provincia de Salta), indagando en su propia historia, con el objetivo de valorar su patrimonio arqueológico, clara evidencia de que el territorio fue y es propicio para el desarrollo de la vida.
This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos.
This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the present day, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties.
