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Region: France

16 page illustrated booklet describing and illustrating the cave complex of habitations and store rooms excavated and inhabited from the C14th - C19th. Illustrated with b&w photos and line drawings. Text in English.  Near new condition. Cat No 4184

Region: Greece

Visitor's guide to the Temple of Poseidon ruins on the Sounion peninsular south of Athens.  Illustrated with many colour photographs of the ruins and its landscape setting.  Includes site plans and a large fold out reconstruction plan.  Paperback.  80 pages.

Region: Egypt

A sumptuous catalogue of an exhibition that took place in Berlin in 1976 commemorating the reign of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten and his regal wife Nefertiti who broke with tradition to found the new city Amarna and the short-lived cult worship of the god Aten.

Region: SE Asia

This locally published guide to Myanmar's historic Buddhist temples and pagodas describes, not only twenty such monuments in Pagan in the most thorough manner, but additionally, similar structures in: Nyaung-U, Myinkaba, Thiripyitsaya, Minnanthu, and Pwasaw.

Region: Italy

The Villa Poppaea (aka 'Oplontis') is an ancient luxurious Roman seaside villa buried and preserved in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, like the nearby cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, The quality of the decorations and construction suggests that it was owned by the Emperor Nero.

Region: Mediterranean

The text of a lecture given by one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek pottery.  Here he considers the range of indigenous Cypriot pottery during a period when the island population took little serious notice of the outside world.

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

Locally published visitor guide to the remains of the ancient Indus Valley city of Mohenjodaro dating from 2600 BC and the first South Asia monument to be designated a World Heritage Site.  Colour photographs illustrate the architecture and the small finds housed in the adjacent museum.

Region: France

Beautifully produced guide to the Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Lascaux, Rouffignac, Les Eyzies and several lesser known cave sites in the Perigord.

Region: Britain - Scotland

Several academic articles relating the history of Bronze Age beaker studies, the concentration of beaker burials in the far North-East of Scotland, the cists in which they were found, the typology of beakers, and a complete list of beakers held by the University of Aberdeen with descriptions of t

Region: Turkey

Written by a local academic this is an extensive guide to the many Hellenistic and Roman ruins in Western Anatolia describing and illustrating each in turn in some detail - Heracleia, Euromos, Nysa, alinda, Alabanda, Mylasa, Labraynda, Stratoniceia, Lagina, Iasus, Bargylia, Myndus, Theangela, Hal