Levant

ISBN: 9780955889462
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s by combining his seafaring skills with his talent as a pioneering photojournalist. He visited Arabia in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780897223126
Published by : American Numismatic Society
Series: Numismatic Studies (ANSNS)
Volume: 25
This volume represents the first comprehensive look at ancient Arabian coinage in toto since George Hill's 1922 British Museum catalogue. In addition to a catalogue and updated typologies of Philistian, Nabataean, Minaen, Qatabanian, Sa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923653
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 31
On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to pe... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780955889448
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Though inhabited for millennia, Kuwait began to emerge as an Arab shaikhdom relatively late. Entering the historical record during the early 18th century as a junction of caravan and sea routes, it quickly grew to be a commercial rival to Basra at... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781906768041
Published by : Stacey International
Series: Origins of Arabia
Yemen's archaeological treasures tell the story of a rich pre-Islamic civilisation of international significance. Alessandro de Maigret, doyen of the archaeologists of the region, sifts through all the archaeological evidence to present a defi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780955889424
Published by : Arabian Publishing Ltd
Today part of the Republic of Yemen, Aden has long passed from British consciousness. Yet it was Queen Victoria's first imperial acquisition and, for 128 years, a vitally important British strategic base and commercial staging post. In the immedia... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306100
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study documents the search for settlement and abandonment processes in a highly vulnerable, but attractive, valley that was squeezed between the rising hills of Cis- and Transjordan. Throughout history this area changed in perception from ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691137704
Published by : Princeton University Press
Integrating biblical accounts with substantive archaeological evidence, The Parting of the Sea looks at how natural phenomena shaped the stories of Exodus, the Sojourn in the Wilderness, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Barbara Sivertsen posi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905739233
Published by : Archaeopress
Contents: V.M. Azzarà, Domestic architecture at the Early Bronze Age sites HD-6 and RJ-2 (JaKalan, Sultanate of Oman); Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels & Antoine Zazzo, Prehistoric camels in south-eastern Arabia: the discovery of... .... Learn More