Covers gold jewellery, regalia and ritual objects of North and West Africa.

This book describes the foundation and early history of Westminster Abbey, and in particular its endowments of land, some of which formed a corridor through Middlesex.

Seven true stories of fake vases and unwary buyers, a catalogue of more than 100 entries of pottery that was the product of imitation, a panorama of the authentic archaeological finds that could have constituted the source of the...

What was a polis? The Copenhagen Polis Centre (core-funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) has recently begun a broad series of investigations into the origins, nature and development of the ancient Greek city-states...

Written over the course of a quarter century, the nineteen essays reprinted in this volume reflect a continuing belief in the seriousness and complexity of the relationship between pictures and texts in medieval art.

Based on over ten years' fieldwork by the author, this comprehensive two-volume study of Roman baths is a useful reference work for students of classical antiquity, as well as students of architecture and the history of...