Archaeology

ISBN: 9781409403661
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This is the third collection of articles by Nina Garsoïan on Early Armenian history and civilization. A number of articles included here continue earlier investigations of Iranian and Byzantine political and, especially, doctrinal and social i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895007057
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: MADRIDER BEITRäGE
Volume: 31
English summary: The life work of the architect and art historian Christian Ewert was the investigation and analysis of west Islamic architectural adornment, from its flowering in the 10th Century through to the 12th Century. His last monog... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781555953553
Published by : Hudson Hill Press
This hefty and beautifully produced catalogue presents 595 objects and fragments with scratch-engraved and wheel-cut ornament made in the Islamic world between the eighth and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour with... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848680883
Published by : Amberley Publishing
In the space of two hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the control of Rome at its prime whilst the conquests... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780884023470
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
The sixth part of Shahid's comprehensive survey of Arab-Byzantine relations in the early Byzantine period looks again at the Ghassanids, this time exploring social, cultural and economic themes. He uses the somewhat sparse contemporary Greek La... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781854442383
Published by : Ashmolean Museum Publications
This volume contains over 1600 coins of the 7th-10th centuries from all parts of the Islamic Empire. Numerous examples of Umayyad gold, silver and copper coinage are included, as well as Abbasid revolutionary issues and Abbasid copper coins. Th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042921498
Published by : Peeters Press
Numerous churches decorated with medieval wall paintings can be found in Lebanon and Syria, especially in the former Crusader County of Tripoli and the Muslim-controlled Damascus area. In particular the first half of the thirteenth century turn... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842173947
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph
Volume: 1
Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime tra... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845117030
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
An unusual work in two parts: the first is an accessible narrative history of the Seljuk Turks from their first arrival in Asia Minor to the triumph of the Ottomans; the second forms a series of itineraries to enable the reader to discover Turk... .... Learn More