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 Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient WorldBest Price: $18.50 Think about the current placement of the Rosetta Stone. It was discovered in Egypt by... |  Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $47.25 This important volume describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for... |  Great Book of Celtic Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and CraftersBest Price: $14.73 This book is a great book of celtic design. It not only gives the history of design but it also... |  How to Read Chinese Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art)Best Price: $15.68 I bought the soft cover edition of the book. At $16.50 (after discount), I feel it's a good buy.... |  Discoveries: Petra: Lost City of the Ancient World (Discoveries (Abrams))Best Price: $5.18 I bought this book for my parents who will be visiting Petra this year. This is a small but... |
 Hadrian: Empire and ConflictBest Price: $19.75 I have so many personal reasons for continuing to be captivated by the Epic "Hadrian";... |  The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and MotifsBest Price: $39.91 If you're interested in Tibetan Buddhist iconography for whatever reason you can't go wrong with... |  Jordan: Past and Present: Petra, Jerash, AmmanBest Price: $14.28 Loved this book as a quick guide. The overlays added to the visual effect. I acrually carried... |  Celtic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)Best Price: $7.14 This is a wonderful addition to any collection of Celtic Art.It is a book of Celtic Design... |  Byzantium, 330-1453Best Price: $72.45 In this magnificent book exploring the artistic and cultural riches of Byzantium, eminent... |
 Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of CivilizationBest Price: $18.34 There are surprisingly few books on jewellery in the ancient world that don't specialise in a... |  The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars (Wooden Books)Best Price: $6.66 I was looking for a concise history of the Mayans and calendars and found it and more within the... |  Celtic and Old Norse Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)Best Price: $3.61 I bought this book looking for inspiration for a Celtic or Viking tattoo design. Hearing what a... |  Art and Experience in Classical GreeceBest Price: $5.95 J.J. Pollitt is one of the most respected scholars of ancient Greek art, and with good reason. ... |  Not Built in a Day: Exploring the Architecture of RomeBest Price: $5.73 George Sullivan's "Not Built in a Day" has many virtues. It is well-organized (as a... |
 Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated DictionaryBest Price: $18.03 This volume is classified as a dictionary, I think only because it's topics are alphabetically... |  The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican ManuscriptBest Price: $14.83 This Codex is remarkable at any price. The colors and reproductions are simply gorgeous and the... |  Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca (World of Art)Best Price: $11.14 Illustrations, analysis - all incredible. A wonderful first book for people curious about the... |  The Royal Tombs of Egypt: The Art of Thebes RevealedBest Price: $33.99 My wife and I had just returned from a trip to Egypt when we found out about this book. We had... |  The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton Paperbacks)Best Price: $25.21 Mathews is primarily concerned to refute a particular early 20th-Century German and Eastern... |
 The Celts (History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization)Best Price: $22.33 This volume invites readers to delve into the origins and development of ancient Celtic culture... |  The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian PhilosophiesBest Price: $29.07 A great deal of work went into this book; a lot of opinions had to be sifted, compared, and... |  The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by DayBest Price: $20.00 The Egyptian Book of the Dead (This edition of the book joins Word and Image together for... |  Art of Ancient Egypt: Revised EditionBest Price: $15.95 From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet,... |  A History of Roman ArtBest Price: $77.11 A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART is a new authoritative and lavishly-illustrated survey of the art of Rome... |
 The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology)Best Price: $119.46 The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of... |  The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western CivilizationBest Price: $12.46 I would recommend this book to anyone who is curious about possible drug use by past... |  The Royal Mummies: Immortality in Ancient EgyptBest Price: $31.47 Starting at the cover, the picture is so large and realistic that it frightens you. The... |  Treasures in Gold: Masterpieces of Jewelry from Antiquity to Modern TimesBest Price: $25.38 This gorgeous book spotlights the art of the goldsmith through history. Starting with the... |  Greek Art and Archaeology, 4th EditionBest Price: $67.97 I am so happy i got this book from amazon. It shipped fast and came in perfect condition. Best... |
 The Art of Mesoamerica (World of Art)Best Price: $13.10 Note: You're "helpful" votes are appreciated. One Mormon reader likes to automatically... |  The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)Best Price: $25.75 First things first: beautiful pictures. Leave this one on your coffee table for guests to peruse... |  The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)Best Price: $19.95 This is an an extraordinary book and quite relevant to analyzing our own cultural images and how... |  Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First EmperorBest Price: $8.89 Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired... |  Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of KellsBest Price: $10.00 The photos of the book are breathtaking and the book gives a good overview of Celtic art... |
 Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art)Best Price: $15.19 An extended history beyond description of art objects, makes understanding what art in the... |  The Ajanta Caves: Ancient Paintings of Buddhist IndiaBest Price: $19.15 If you, like me, have never been to the Ajanta Caves and would like to get a feel for the... |  Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in CairoBest Price: $13.74 A beautiful book with magnificent photos by Kenneth Garrett. A very good description given by... |  Ancient Egyptian Fashions (History of Fashion)Best Price: $2.08 I know when I see the name Tom Tierney on a book of fashion paperdolls and costumes that it will... |  The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Restitution, New and Fully Updated EditionBest Price: $10.75 With the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, the case for restitution is now... |
 Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs: The Classic MartyrologyBest Price: $5.27 From the review: "and 24 illustrations by a variety of well-known artists, performers, and... |  The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge Companion To...)Best Price: $25.24 This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to... |  The Cave of AltamiraBest Price: $95.74 Closure of a number of palaeolithic cave art sites has produced a wave of books depicting the... |  The Ancient Art of Faery MagickBest Price: $10.45 Just another fantasy/nonsense Conway book. Stick with the authors who really *know* about Faery... |  The Tomb in Ancient EgyptBest Price: $29.55 Looking at it, you might be excused for thinking it was just a coffee table book. But this a... |
 Greek Art (World of Art)Best Price: $6.36 This book will do for the next generation of students and general readers what its predecessor... |  The First Emperor: China's Terracotta ArmyBest Price: $20.00 The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army is the catalog of the British Museum's exhibition... |  Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)Best Price: $50.26 Wonderful illustrations. Up-tu-date analyses & comments. For amateurs and specialists as well. |  Images of Myths in Classical AntiquityBest Price: $25.83 It was a pure pleasure to read through Susan Woodford's book "Images of Myths in Classical... |  Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman WorldBest Price: $12.40 This book has given me the incredible desire to take the rest of my life and do nothing except... |
 Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical PastBest Price: $29.95 This is one of the rare books that genuinely helps to make a real connection to a very different... |  Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek WorldBest Price: $19.99 This book explores the variety of ancient Greek sanctuaries--their settings, spaces, shapes, and... |  Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C. - A.D. 250Best Price: $16.20 Only one problem (I think): Clarke doesn't really follow up very well on his early-proposed... |  Herculaneum: Italy's Buried TreasureBest Price: $10.75 Because this book was paired with the book Pompeii, I was expecting a book full of great images.... |  Hellenistic Sculpture (World of Art)Best Price: $10.00 Professor Smith offers a reappraisal of this entire artistic epoch as a period of innovation,... |
 Roman PortraitsBest Price: $19.45 The cover, showing a few profiles overlapping one another, really gives this book's idea: you... |  Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead CivilizationBest Price: $14.99 "Ancient Mesopotamia" struck me as being a wake-up call to Assyriologists to get their... | |||
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