Fayez Barakat
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Painting, Israeli
ISBN :
The Barakat Gallery
Author : Barakat Gallery
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Indian art
ISBN :
Book Description
The Lotus Quest
Author : Mark Griffiths
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0312641486
Book Description
A story of one of the world's most iconic flowers documents the author's research into the lotus's ancient origins and historical significance in various world regions, tracking its medicinal uses, inspiration in art and role as a spiritual symbol
Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections
Author : James Nathan Ford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004411836
Book Description
This volume presents new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) incantation bowl texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena based on high-resolution photographs, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining bowls.
Black Market Billions
Author : Hitha Prabhakar
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0132180243
Book Description
Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money ... from consumers "dying for a deal" to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.
Gleanings from the Caves
Author : Torleif Elgvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567285715
Book Description
This special edition large format LSTS volume presents, over half of them for the first time, ten biblical and five non-biblical fragments from the Judean Desert. The text features 42 photographs of the fragments. The publication of seven new fragments from the Judean Desert will supplement the Discoveries in the Judean Desert series and bring new material to scholars regarding the full textual situation. Two of the new biblical fragments suggest the preservation of substantial textual variants. The new Aramaic fragment reveals the use of interesting linguistic forms. The book includes a 10 page essay by Martin Schoyen about how he has tracked down and acquired Judean Desert fragments and artifacts since 1994. The collection of images, photographs of the fragments, and scholarly commentary from some of the leading experts in the field gives the reader a comprehensive picture of the artifacts from Qumran. The fragments included are: 4QLeviticusi, 4QSamueld, 4QDeuteronomy, and 4Q Twelve prophets; New (additional) fragments of 4QPsalmsq and 4QExodusc; improved version of XJudges frg 3, 4QJoshuac, 1QDanielb, and 4QJoshuac; Apochryphal fragments - 4QTobita and 1QapocrGenesis; and, Other fragments - 1QSb (Rule of Blessings, reedition), 11QTemplea, and 4QAramaic frg.
The Book of Stolen Tales
Author : D. J. McIntosh
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1788634233
Book Description
A deadly disease threatens humanity, and the only clue lies in an ancient book of fairy tales... John Madison, a dashing New York art dealer with a dark past, travels to London to purchase a seventeenth-century Italian book of fables for an anonymous client. Before he can deliver it to the buyer, he is robbed by a man claiming to be the book’s author. When his client disappears and the book’s provenance is questioned, John must immerse himself in the strange world of European aristocracy and rare book collectors. Trapped within this shady world, the dark origins of familiar fairy tales come to life around him. Faced with mortal peril, Madison discovers that a well-loved children’s story may contain the key to the book’s history, unearthing a necromancer’s spell, the source of a deadly Mesopotamian plague. The Book of Stolen Tales, second in the nerve shredding Mesopotamian trilogy, is perfect for fans of Raymond Khoury, Kate Mosse and Scott Mariani.
Ancient Rings
Author : T.N. Pollio
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1476673853
Book Description
Ancient finger rings made of base metals and low-grade silver alloys are increasingly being unearthed and sold through a growing assortment of marketplaces worldwide. Reference material on ancient rings has focused mainly on historic and "high-end" pieces--the precious metals and stones of royalty and the wealthy--while little has been written on the evaluation of common rings. This guide describes their composition, structure and imagery, thus providing merchants, collectors and researchers with a comprehensive reference on these ancient artifacts that, until now, have gone unexamined.
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Author : Nancy L Kelker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315428598
Book Description
Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. An important, accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike. A parallel volume by the same authors discusses fakes in Andean archaeology.
Witnesses to History
Author : Lyndel V. Prott
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9231041282
Book Description
This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.
