The volume aims to throw light on the two different faces of the creation of writing – invention and adaptation – and on the multidimensional nature of such processes.
A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds.
This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present.
The present volume, Great Waterworks in Roman Greece, consists the very first presentation of large scale waterworks in the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire.
This book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance.
This volume is a collection of articles, most of which are based on the talks given at the conference of the same name organised by the team of the South Asasif Conservation Project.
Unfolding a Mountain has an innovative and thoughtprovoking approach to the neglected topic of the role of caves in the modern and recent historical past in Greece.
This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a whole.
In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings.
Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press, Gerstel’s study takes an ambitious and original tack in addressing the landscape of a village and its inhabitants through medieval art.
The book presents the first in-depth analysis of the market of Egyptian objects on display in Western museums during its “golden age” in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
This richly illustrated book invites the reader to enter the building and experience the splendid golden and silver mosaics that cover cupola and vaults.
The twelve papers presented here each deal with specific islands or island groups, thus allowing for an integrated view of Mediterranean insularity and identity.
The book traces the development of cultural techniques through which empires managed difference in order to establish effective, enduring regimes of domination.