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Region: France

The author uncovers the relationship between medieval church decoration and ritual practice in caring for the sick.

Region: Central Asia

A lavish catalogue of the Hermitage Museum's collection of gold artefacts of the Scythian steppe nomads of the 7th century BC.  Illustrated with large number of fabulous colour photographs.  Bibliography.  Text in Russian.  Large format paperback.  64 pages.

Region: Mediterranean

Attractive illustrated handbook to the Mycenaean galleries.  Paperback. 24 pages.  Bi-lingual Greek/English.  New condition.  Cat No 3001

Region: Eastern Europe

Huge illustrated gazetteer of almost 400 ancient and historic churches dating from the C14th each entry includes a detailed description and excellent colour photograph.  Location maps assist in finding each church.  Text in Serbian.  Large paperback.  382 pages.

Region: France

Large illustrated English guidebook to the project in the heart of Guédelon forest where a team of master-builders is building a 13th-century castle from scratch.

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

This book deals with the period 1500 BC - 700 BC when the sacred Sanskrit Rigveda texts were transmitted orally.  It explores aspects of geography, migrations, technology, economy, society, and religion in the Vedic corpus and draws on this to reconstruct the lives of ordinary people.

Region: Italy

A very attractive official record of the earliest excavations at Herculaneum in the C18th, and its growing fascination to wealthy visitors in the C19th when archaeology was the preserve of the rich dilettante, until more scientific excavation techniques began to be applied in the 1920’s.

Region: Middle East

Sumptuous catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition 'Gilded and Glazed: Mamluk Glass and Iznik Pottery' held at the Sheraton Doha Hotel and featuring ten of the very finest and rarest examples of decorated glass mosque lamps created in Cairo at the craft's apogee in the C14th and C15th.

Region: Americas

This book documents a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman and patron of Southwestern archaeology.

Region: Britain - S. England

Although this book covers all aspects of Marlborough Downs - geology, flora, fauna, villages, and literary associations - the first half deals with its very obvious prehistory and the megalithic monuments of the Neolithic and Bronze Age located on the Downs.  Paperback.  190 pages.