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  • The Excavations Beneath Wilson’s Arch, Volume 1

    Edited by Joe Uziel, Avi Solomon, Tehillah Lieberman ...
    Series series Ancient Jerusalem Publications
    Some 170 years have passed since the Swiss doctor Titus Tobler published the first scientific mention of a stone arch built over a large, plastered pool west of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was the arch that supported the path leading from the Old City market to the Chain Gate, one of the passages to the Temple Mount that, years later, scholars began to refer to as Wilson’s Arch. Early ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

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  • The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    by Stephanie Dalley ...
    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Woven Threads

    Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age

    Edited by Maria C. Shaw, Anne P. Chapin ...
    Series Book 22 - Ancient Textiles
    Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilizations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000–1200 BC, contemporary with Pharaonic Egypt. Both could boast ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Ancient Textiles
    Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JEWELRY TECHNOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL WORLD

    by Jack Ogden ...
    This book is a comprehensive overview of four and a half thousand years of jewelry technology—from the dawn of the Bronze Age to the end of the medieval period, including chapters on design, gold refining and testing, the goldsmiths themselves and the perennial problem of fakes. It will appeal to curators, conservators, collectors, archaeologists, practicing goldsmiths and all those interested in ... Read more

    $21.13 CAD

  • Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

    The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world

    Edited by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing ...
    The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible

    A Basic Guide

    by John Currid ...
    A popular introduction to archaeology and the methods archaeologists use to reconstruct the history of ancient Israel. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Textile Research Series
    Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context

    Edited by Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd ...
    The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorized excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Cecilie Brøns, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series Book 31 - Ancient Textiles
    Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Archaeology of Jerusalem

    From the Origins to the Ottomans

    by Katharina Galor, Hanswulf Bloedhorn ...
    In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city’s material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Ancient Textiles

    Production, Crafts and Society

    by Marie-Louise Nosch, C. Gillis ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Textiles
    An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus