Ancient Near East & Cyprus
Archaeology and history from Early Man to the spread of Islam in the region that stretches from northern Turkey to southern Arabia and from the Levantine coast to Iran.
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Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC [Paperback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); C. Michel (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9781782973911
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES
Volume: 8
Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive su... .... Learn More -
Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Volume S, Fascicule 4 [Paperback]
£32.00ISBN: 9781885923790
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Hittite Dictionary
Volume: S.4
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The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Volume Š, fascicle 3 [Paperback]
Hans G. Guterbock† (Editor); Harry A. Hoffner (Author); Theo P. J. van den Hout (Editor)
£18.50ISBN: 9781885923950
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the ... .... Learn More -
AMILLA: The Quest for Excellence. Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday [Hardback]
Robert B. Koehl (Editor)
£55.00ISBN: 9781931534734
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 43
Contributions by 34 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Guenter Kopcke who is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York ... .... Learn More -
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins [Paperback]
Jack Green (Editor); Emily Teeter (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9781885923998
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 36
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with ... .... Learn More -
Souvenirs and New Ideas [Paperback]
Diane Fortenberry (Editor)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £18.00
ISBN: 9781842178157
Published by : Oxbow Books
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many travellers aimed to record their travels through Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and Turkey by collecting souvenirs and mementos of places they had visited. This natural inclination took man... .... Learn More -
La cerámica importada de Tell el-Ghaba, norte de Sinaí : Interacciones locales y regionales durante la época saíta (siglos VII-VI a.C.) [Paperback]
Susana Teresa Basílico (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407311050
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2491
In this work the author analyzes the imported pottery at Tell el -Ghaba (N. Sinai) in its contextual relationship, focusing on the different styles, morphology and pastes, to further conduct a comparative study with pottery coming... .... Learn More -
Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) VII, 1 and 2 : Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 Fort Shalmaneser [Hardback]
Georgina Hermann (Author); Stuart Laidlaw (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780903472296
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Ivories from Nimrud
Volume: VII
The Lost Art of the Phoenicians
Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been p... .... Learn More -
Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2 [Hardback]
A. V. G. Betts (Author); D. Cropper (Author); L. Martin (Author); C. McCartney (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9781842174739
Published by : Council for British Research in the Levant
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Volume: 11
The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past. This is the second of two volumes to document... .... Learn More -
Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World [Paperback]
Deena Ragavan (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9781885923967
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Seminars
Volume: 9
The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012. Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a v... .... Learn More