Archaeology

ISBN: 9780884023180
Published by : Dumbarton Oaks
This illustrated handbook presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century, tracing its transition from coins that closely resembled Byzantine issues with imperial images to purely ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004167544
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This publication is engaged in issues, trends, and themes depicted on mosaic pavements discovered in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Petra (the provinces of ancient Palaestina Prima, Secunda and Tertia) with comparable floors in Jordan (Arabia). The... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846311611
Published by : Liverpool University Press
This volume offers annotated translations of several of the most important sources for the study of the history of the School of Nisibis, the most prominent centre of learning in the Church of the East (the 'Nestorian' church of the Sasanian Em... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789516533646
Published by : Finnish Academy of Sciences
This is the first in a new series of reports from the Finnish Jabul Harun Project, which has conducted excavations at a Byzantine monastic complex at Jabul Harun (the Mountain of Aaron) near to Petra. As well as a general overview of the site i... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780903472227
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Samarra Studies
Volume: 1
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407300429
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
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ISBN: 9781854442109
Published by : Ashmolean Museum Publications
This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. It covers the following dynasties: Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Fatamids, Ayyubids, Zengids and Mamluks. .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521865470
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409-1447) to analyze the relationship between government and society in the medieval Middle East. She provides a rich portrait of Iranian society over an exception... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199204779
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el of Siwnik' in the early fifteenth century. Arak'el writes extremely powerful narrative poetry, as in his description of the brilliance of parad... .... Learn More