Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not
easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in ...
What informed and inspired the visual artists who depicted the Trojan War on vases, on
walls, and in sculpture? Scholars have debated this question for years. Were Greek painters simply depicting the stories of Achilles and Odysseus as recounted in ...
Combining a guide for the Museum visitor with scholarly discussions of all objects on display,
this catalogue provides background on the society, history, technology, and commerce of the Etruscan and Faliscan cultures from the ninth through the first centuries B.C. ...
English summary: In the spring of 1899, the grave goods of the Fan-Bearer Maiherperi, whose
tomb was discovered in the Valley of the King (KV 36), were added to the considerable collection of the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo and ...
The last three decades have witnessed the introduction of gendered approaches to the social sciences
in general, and archaeology in particular, developing initially within the rubric of womens studies by American feminist and other politically minded academics who formed part ...
When the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the
19th century, brothers Fausto and Felice Niccolini were close at hand and ready to respond. Making use of the newly introduced technique of color lithography, ...
Mouldmade terracotta heads of men, women and children were being produced in Italy from the
fourth century BC. This book not only discusses the production, chronology, distribution, style and chemical composition of these heads, but also includes a large catalogue ...
Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats
and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth ...
