World Heritage: Archaeological Sites and Urban CentresFirst volume of three that Skira and UNESCO are launching to illustrate and describe world heritage places. This volume, devoted specifically to archaeological areas and urban centres, focuses on forty-six emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, distant in time and space, but presented together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection. With this instrument for learning and understanding, and through a particularly rich array of images, places of all sorts, distant in time and space, can be found together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection devoted to the complex paths of human history and culture: a true heritage of every nation and every individual. |
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... Fatimids of Egypt , and the Ayyu- bids of Saladin . At the start of the sixteenth century it was the turn of the Mamelukes , fol- lowed in 1548 by the long rule of the Ottoman Empire , which only ended in 1636 . More than 200 years ...
... Fatimids of Egypt , and the Ayyu- bids of Saladin . At the start of the sixteenth century it was the turn of the Mamelukes , fol- lowed in 1548 by the long rule of the Ottoman Empire , which only ended in 1636 . More than 200 years ...
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... Fatimid and Mameluke sultans who ruled there . The oldest urban structure stood on the right bank of the Nile , near the island of ar- Roda , built by the Romans , who called the city Babylon ' on the river ' : it included a fort ...
... Fatimid and Mameluke sultans who ruled there . The oldest urban structure stood on the right bank of the Nile , near the island of ar- Roda , built by the Romans , who called the city Babylon ' on the river ' : it included a fort ...
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... Fatimids and the Crusaders , restored Egypt to the Turkish sultans of Syria and changed the appearance of Cairo ... Fatimid era ) built a stone enclosure wall , which he was unable to complete because of his departure for the war ...
... Fatimids and the Crusaders , restored Egypt to the Turkish sultans of Syria and changed the appearance of Cairo ... Fatimid era ) built a stone enclosure wall , which he was unable to complete because of his departure for the war ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
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