EXPLORING THE ANCIENT WORLD: A GUIDE TO THE MOST OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL WONDERS EVER BUILT
Written by Paul Bahn
Published by AA
in 2008
ISBN: 9780749558864
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- HISTORY
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- ARCHAEOLOGY
EXPLORING THE ANCIENT WORLD: A GUIDE TO THE MOST OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL WONDERS EVER BUILT
Written by Paul Bahn.
Stock no. 1808591
1st.
2008.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Incorporating the most important archaeological sites from around the globe. Glazed boards. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9780749558864. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased and slightly faded at edges and spine. A few small tears to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- World site locator maps
- Seven Wonders of the World
- THE AMERICAS
- Head-Smashed-In
- L'Anse-aux-Meadows
- Mesa Verde
- Tiwanaku
- Copan
- Chichen Itza
- La Venta
- Monte Alban
- Palenque
- Teotihuacan
- Chan Chan
- Huaca de la Luna
- Machu Picchu
- Maca
- EUROPE
- Carnac Monuments
- Pech Merle
- Akrotiri
- Athens
- Delphi
- Knossos
- Mycanae
- Olympia
- Newgrange and the Irish Passage Graves
- Skellig Michael
- Alpine Rock Art
- Certveteri and Tarquinia
- Greek Temples of Italy
- Ostia
- Pompeii/Herculaneum
- Temples of Malta
- Viking Sweden
- Bath
- Caernarfon Castle
- Hadrian's Wall
- Skara Brae
- Stonehenge
- Sutton Hoo
- Tintern Abbey
- MIDDLE EAST
- Abu Simbel
- Abydos
- Deir el-Medina
- Edfu
- Giza
- Karnak and Luxor
- Saqqara
- Valley of the Kings
- Persepolis
- Masada
- Jerash
- Petra
- Leptis Magna
- Palmyra
- AFRICA
- Aksum
- Lalibela and Imraha Kristos
- Saharan Rock Art
- Southern Africa Rock Art
- Sterkfontein Cave
- Meroe
- Olduvai Gorge
- Great Zimbabwe
- ASIA
- Angkor
- Ming Tombs
- Tang Tombs
- The Great Wall
- The Terracotta Army
- Sanchi
- Vijayanagara
- Mohenjo-Daro
- Kurgans and Megaliths of Khakasia
- Tomskaya Pisanitsa
- Gyeongju
- Anuradhapura
- Boghazkoy
- Ephesus
- Pergamom
- Troy (Hisarlik)
- AUSTRALASIA
- Kakadu National Park
- Lake Mungo
- Nan Madol
- Easter Island
- Index
- Acknowledgements and credits