Unfolding History: Great Monuments of the Ancient World
(Includes spectacular large format fold-outs of colour photographs throughout)
Henri Stierlin
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This is the perfect book for anyone interested in the legacies of the world’s great civilizations.
The first book in the new Unfolding History series, it features amazing aerial photographs of twenty-nine of the world’s greatest ancient sites. Photographs of each site are crowned by a spectacular fold-out photograph that enables the reader to view the monument in minute detail, while accompanying text provides information on its history and construction.
Malta • Stonehenge • Mohenjo-daro • Ur • Ebla • The Pyramids of Giza • Deir El-Bahri • Karnak • The Ramesseum • Meroë • Mycenae • The Acropolis of Athens • Delos • Paestum • Didyma • Persepolis • Petra • Palmyra • Pompeii • The Colosseum in Rome • Mérida • The Pont du Gard • Aspendos • Jiaohe • Borobudur • Angkor Wat • Teotihuacán • Chichén Itzá • Machu Picchu
Henri Stierlin is a renowned architectural photographer. He has written several books, including Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal, also published by Thames & Hudson.
Also of interest:
The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great
Monuments and How They Were Built
Greece from the Air
Egypt from the Air |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500543097 | | ISBN-13 978-0500543092 | | | | 19.8 x 26.4 cm | | PLC with Jacket | | 186pp | | 119 illustrations, 99 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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