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Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity's Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran: A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the University of Edinburgh (2014-2016) [Hardback]
Eberhard Sauer(Editor); Jebrael Nokandeh(Editor); Hamid Omrani Rekavandi(Editor)
Regular Price: $130.00
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ISBN: 9781789254624
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: VII
Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few realise that imperial Rome had a serious competitor in Late Antiquity. Late Roman legionary bases, normal... .... Learn More -
Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis [Paperback]
Ken Dark(Author); Ferudun Özgümüş(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258066
Published by : Oxbow Books
Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban center of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named 'Constantinople' after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and s... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Divine: Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia [Paperback]
Jaś Elsner(Editor); Rachel Wood(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592340
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 234
This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Duri... .... Learn More -
Byzantium after Byzantium [Hardback]
Professor Nicolae Iorga(Author); Virgil Candea(Introduction)
$49.99ISBN: 9789739432092
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
Although Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, bringing an end to the Eastern Roman Empire which had survived its predecessor in the West by nearly one thousand years, this important book argues that Byzantium did not die, but continued to inf... .... Learn More -
Revelations of Byzantium: The Monasteries and Painted Churches of Northern Moldavia [Paperback]
Alan Ogden(Photographer); Dr. Kurt W. Treptow(Introduction); Octavian Ion Penda(Illustrator)
$39.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781592110575
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
The monasteries and painted churches of Moldavia stand today as a testament to the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the Romanian people. As the Romanians living in the historical provinces of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania, which tod... .... Learn More -
Butrint 7: Beyond Butrint: Kalivo, Mursi, Çuka e Aitoit, Diaporit and the Vrina Plain. Surveys and Excavations in the Pavllas River Valley, Albania, 1928–2015 [Hardback]
David Hernandez(Editor); Richard Hodges(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254334
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Volume: 7
This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw new light on the archaeology and history of the Pavllas River Valley, the Mediterranean alluvial pl... .... Learn More -
A Globalised Visual Culture?: Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art [Hardback]
Fabio Guidetti(Editor); Katharina Meinecke(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254464
Published by : Oxbow Books
Late Antique artifacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, i... .... Learn More -
City Walls in Late Antiquity: An empire-wide perspective [Hardback]
Emanuele Intagliata(Editor); Simon J. Barker(Editor); Christopher Courault(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253641
Published by : Oxbow Books
The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they ... .... Learn More -
Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages: The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys of 2013–2016 [Hardback]
Eberhard Sauer(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789251920
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
Volume: 6
The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via ... .... Learn More -
The Transformation of Pontic Trade from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Transport Vessels from the Archaeological Museum of Sinop [Paperback]
Dr Gergely Csiky(Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9789639911963
Published by : Archaeolingua
Series: Series Minor
Volume: 40
Sinope was one of the major harbors of the southern Black Sea coast during Antiquity and the Middle Ages situated on the northernmost point of Anatolia circa 200 km from Crimea across the sea. Due to its location, the city was a node in trans-Pont... .... Learn More
