Ancient History & Archaeology

This is an archaeological report on the Roman town of Cosa. It covers a group of recently excavated houses between the forum and the Florentine gate, tracing the development of...

Author: Alfonsina Russo , Martina Almonte , Ines ArlettiBinding: HardbackPublished: Electa; Fendi; Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markings*The Temple of Venus and Rome* offers a crisp,...

Author: Bernard WallBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis evocative work presents a vivid portrait...

Author: Aubrey MenenBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Marked wear and yellowing of external and internal cover;...

Author: E. R. ChamberlinBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear and yellowing of external dust cover and internal cover; pages in good...

Author: E. R. ChamberlinBinding: HardbackPublished: TIME LIFE BOOKS, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear and yellowing on external dust cover; pages in good conditionThe Great Cities:...

Author: Brook AndrewBinding: HardbackPublished: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markings*Sanctuary: Tombs of the Outcasts* (2015) by Australian artist Brook Andrew was an exhibition at the...

This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also...

At once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history, The Foundation of Rome takes as its starting point a series of accounts of Rome's origins...

David Castriota examines one of the most important monuments of early Roman Imperial art, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the sculptured marble altar built to celebrate the peace, prosperity, and stability...

When the first edition of "Stonehenge Complete" was published, it won the British Archaeological Book Award. People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries: speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and...

From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learning The ancient Greek philosopher...

Author: E. O. JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom Caves To New York chronicles a fascinating journey, tracing the evolution of human habitation...

Author: Joan M. FraynBinding: HardbackPublished: Centaur Press, Fontwell, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some foxing on DJThis scholarly work, Subsistence Farming In Roman Italy, meticulously...

Author: Donald StrongBinding: HardbackPublished: The Pelican History of Art, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsDonald Strong's Roman Art presents a comprehensive overview of artistic achievements during the Roman Empire....

Author: Robert E. A. PalmerBinding: HardbackPublished: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some markings on dust jacket and tape residue markings on FEP....

Author: Pierre GrimalBinding: HardbackPublished: Evans Brothers Limited, 1964Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerIn In Search Of Ancient Italy, Pierre Grimal...

Author: David Knowles And J. K. S. St JosephBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis work presents...

Author: William GauntBinding: PaperbackPublished: THE STUDIO LONDON, 1926Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear, minor loosening of spineWilliam Gaunt's Rome: Past...

Author: Peter BondanellaBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor creasing on external dust jacketThis scholarly work chronicles the profound and...

Author: John PercivalBinding: HardbackPublished: B.T. Batsford LTD, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General yellowing of cover and internal pagesThe acclaimed work The Roman Villa by John Percival...

Author: N.H.H. SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Paladin, 1984Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, The World The Romans Knew, chronicles the vast geographical and cultural landscape as perceived by the...

Author: R. Ross HollowayBinding: PaperbackPublished: Routledge, 1996Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work, The Archaeology Of Early Rome And Latium, meticulously...

Author: Frank G. SlaughterBinding: HardbackPublished: JARROLDS, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: General wear and browning of external cover and spine, pages still in tact and in good conditionThis...

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed Hadrian...

One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a...

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book -...

This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social...

Author: K.D. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some tears to DJ, top-edge discoloured...

A history of the development of Roman gardens from humble vegetable patches to the sophisticated formats seen at the height of the empire. Domestic, public, town and country gardens are...

Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite...

This text describes 100 of the world's most important archaeological discoveries. Alongside the well-known are placed the equally important but less-familiar, all of which have helped our understanding of the...

Author: Monuque Seerfried, Giuseppe DonatoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor markings to FEP, some bends to cover.-

Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed and beloved historian of Europe 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's...

Travel back in time and explore the extraordinary world of ancient Rome From bakers and soldiers to gladiators and emperors, find out what it was like to live in one...

From a talented young anthropologist and contributor to the New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism What are the origins of shamanism and what is...

The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced...

Author: Ernest NashBinding: HardbackPublished: Hacker Art Books, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed boards. Light bumping on corners. Internally...

Author: VariousBinding: PaperbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Creased cover. The Antiquaries Journal presents a scholarly collection of...

Gun-guwelamagapa: Gun-nerranga gun-nerranga rrawa, An-barra gun-nika describes the An-barra Archaeological Project, which investigated the archaeological sites around the mouth of the Blyth River (An-gartcha Wana literally "Big River") in central...

Author: C.W. CeramBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis non-fiction work chronicles the fascinating evolution of archaeological discovery, presenting a vivid narrative...

Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas,...

In this lavishly illustrated book Richard Rudgley gives a lively account of his journey across the continents and back through time in search of the lost legacy of prehistoric man....

"Studies in Ancient Technology" forms a series of books, each containing a number of essays on ancient technology, covering both the preclassical and classical period and demonstrating the continuity and...

he authors of this text, originally published in England in 1991, are young scholars who present no less than a "chronological revolution." After tracing the development of Old World chronology,...

The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses is the first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complex heritage of industrial cultures. It breaks new...