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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... King of England , and the Saxons and their King Hengist . Since the two parties had agreed to make peace , they agreed to meet , unarmed , near the site of Stonehenge ; here , treacherously , the Saxons drew their daggers and assassinated ...
... King of England , and the Saxons and their King Hengist . Since the two parties had agreed to make peace , they agreed to meet , unarmed , near the site of Stonehenge ; here , treacherously , the Saxons drew their daggers and assassinated ...
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... king ' , built his own cap- ital , the giant Angkor Thom , ' Angkor the Great ' , the ' Great City ' , and Khmer art re- gained its ancient splendour . In its ten - mile enclosure wall there are five monumental gates , each of which is ...
... king ' , built his own cap- ital , the giant Angkor Thom , ' Angkor the Great ' , the ' Great City ' , and Khmer art re- gained its ancient splendour . In its ten - mile enclosure wall there are five monumental gates , each of which is ...
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... kings . The first king to select this valley as his final resting place was Darius I. The façade of his tomb carved in the rock presents an enormous cross at the centre of which stood a false colonnade with animal - shaped capitals ...
... kings . The first king to select this valley as his final resting place was Darius I. The façade of his tomb carved in the rock presents an enormous cross at the centre of which stood a false colonnade with animal - shaped capitals ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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adorned Aerial view ancient Angkor archaeological arches architect architecture artistic Baalbek Baroque basilica buildings built Bukhara Campo dei Miracoli capital carved cathedral century B.C. Church city's columns complex construction Convention Copán courtyard cultural and natural Cuzco date back decorated dedicated depicting developed dome dynasty Emperor Empire enclosure walls façade Fatimid fifteenth fortified Forum founded frescoes Galla Placidia Gothic Greek Heian period Historic Centre houses Imperial Forums important Inca interior Islamic kilometres King layout Leptis Magna masterpieces medieval metres monasteries monumental Mosque Museum Nabataean natural heritage Old City Omayyad outstanding paintings Palace Palazzo period plaza portico preserved protection Pyramid religious Renaissance River Roman Romanesque Rome ruins sacred Saint San'a sculpture Septimius Severus settlement side sixteenth century sixth century square statues stone structure style Suzdal Temple tenth century tion tombs towers town tradition Trajan tury twelfth century urban Vatican World Heritage World Heritage Site