Book Description
This work examines travellers' accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region.
Author : Monika Rekowska
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784913219
This work examines travellers' accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region.
Author : Monika Rekowska-Ruszkowska
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9781784913205
This work examines travellers' accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region. The dates given in the title symbolically mark their beginning and end. The starting date (1706) is that of the first journey across Cyrenaica that led to the writing of the first account extensive enough to be the subject of detailed analysis. The end date (1911) marks the beginning of the Italian occupation of Libya, when responsibility for archaeology was entrusted to the greatest Italian specialists of the period. Travelogues were replaced by scholarly studies featuring both well-known and newly discovered sites, while amateur descriptions and drawings were replaced by professional analysis and documentation. The main protagonists of the book are people who travelled to Cyrenaica or stayed there for some time, people of a variety of ages and sorts: physicians and an engineer, priests, soldiers and diplomats, artists and adventurers, scholars and archaeologists. They differed considerably in their education, personalities, itineraries and objectives of their journeys, their wealth and personal circumstances. What they did have in common was great curiosity and courage, love of adventure and the ability to survive in harsh and dangerous conditions - compensated for by unusual discoveries - and, finally, an interest in ancient ruins, which for the purpose of this book is what makes their accounts valuable.
Author : Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789691494
Papers present research from different regions ranging from ancient Mauritania, through Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, as well as sites in Crimea and Georgia. Topics include: topography, architecture, interiors and décor, religious syncretism, the importance of ancient texts, pottery studies and conservation.
Author : Alan Rowe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : John Carman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
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ISBN : 3031698282
Author : Luca Cherstich
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1803275502
This book analyzes ancient tombs in Eastern Libya, from the Archaic phase to Late Roman times. Despite plundering, these ornate structures reveal funerary competition, spatial organization, and lost rituals. The book reconstructs the social history of ancient Cyreneans through their ostentatious funerary culture.
Author : John Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
The death of Goodchild in 1968 and Ward-Perkins in 1981 left a wealth of material on the Christian sites and monuments of Cyrenaica unpublished.
Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
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(BAR S236, 1985)
Author : D. C. Cumming
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Alan Rowe
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1948
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