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Sites of Antiquity From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome

by Charles Freeman

From the people who create the Blue Guides, the somewhat superior cultural guidebooks, comes this beautifully produced coffee-table style offering. Charles Freeman selects 50 of the Ancient World's finest sites, using them to trace the development of their civilizations from Egypt through Minoans and Mycenaeans to Greece and Rome, finishing at Constantinople and the Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai. The texts are well-written and convey a surprising amount of information, focusing on the extant remains and what they can tell us, rather than on excavations at the sites, and each illustrated with useful plans and many colour photographs. Definitely one of the more thoughtful books of this nature. 248p col illus on every page (Somerset Books 2009)

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