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The Lost World of Pompeii (Häftad)
avColin Amery, Brian Curran
ISBN: 9780711232624 - UTGIVEN: 201109When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the city of Pompeii was buried in ash and rock, then forgotten, left almost perfectly preserved for centuries. Archaeological excavation of the site began in 1748 and revealed extraordinary evidence about public and private life at the height of the Roman [...]
Obelisk: A History (Övrig)
avBrian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, Benjamin Weiss
ISBN: 9780262512701 - UTGIVEN: 2009-04-03Nearly every empire worthy of the name--from ancient Rome to the United States--has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks--giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects--serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscr[...]
