Describes in great detail the techniques used in the excavation of elusive Danish Dark Age and Medieval farm and mill sites focusing principally on

Highly detailed survey of every aspect of Sri Lanka's second most ancient kingdom dating from the C12th and C13th with special emphasis on its cult

A handsome album of high quality art photos depicting twenty Swedish rune-inscribed standing stones with their texts transliterated.  A detail

Massive highly illustrated exhibition catalogue covering all aspects of the silk road cultures of Uzbekistan.  Although focusing on the cultur

An extensive photographic survey of post-restoration Borobudur featuring in detail the structure, the friezes and carvings with additional informat

Large illustrated catalogue of Korean antiquities and Buddhist relics.

Massive encyclopaedia of Islamic decoration - architectural, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, glasswares, textiles and carpets.  Illustrated wit

A field guide for visitors to Hadrian's Wall providing fold-out views, maps and visitor information.  In addition to obvious background on the

Thorough examination  of traditional folk arts in the life of the Chinese populace - paper cuts,  games,  masks, toys, lanterns, woo

A superb album of 230 colour plates depicting the wealth of ancient Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist deities in hillside grottoes now a World Heritag

Glossy full colour guide to the artefacts and antiquities housed in the Grand Master's Palace dating from Rhodes ancient prehistory through to the

An illustrated catalogue of the Open Air Museum near Tallinn which collects and conserves historic rural and agricultural buildings from across all

A survey of inland Yorkshire fisheries, principally monastic fish ponds, during the C12th and C13th with a case study of the ponds at Byland Abbey

The author presents surviving works of Crusader figural sculpture introduced into the Holy Land in C12th in marked contrast to indigenous art forms

Catalogue of an exhibition that gathered together outstanding works of art depicting the Magi including amongst many -  early medieval ivory c

Modern-day Kuwaitis recreate the voyages of the past by commissioning Indian boat builders, who still have the skills, to construct a 175-ton tradi

History of the Somerset brick factories which were very active in the last half of the C19th producing architectural bricks, roofing tiles, decorat

Includes descriptions of the many ancient churches on the island, two Roman villas, three castles, the medieval St Catherine's oratory, the one sta

History of silhouette art illustrated with thirty-five examples in the text plus twenty b&w plates depicting fine examples from the C18th and e

Auction catalogue dedicated to one single item - the remarkable gold La Tène fibula (cloak clasp) thought to have been manufactured on the Iberian

A massive survey of the work and techniques deployed to conserve one of Piero della Francesca's greatest works, that of the huge sequence of fresco

A personal reflection on the restoration projects undertaken by the author to damaged or deteriorating church frescoes in Florence, Pisa, Padua, Na

An attractive guide to the C15th polyptych conserved in the Museo Civico di Sansepolcro in Tuscany painted in vivid colours against a gilded backgr

Describes the history of printing and book production in Greenland from the earliest work published (rather surprisingly) as early as 1793.

This book documents the introduction of printing to Indonesia and its immediate history thereafter starting in the 1670's with books printed by the