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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Page 173
... four towers , upon each of which is carved four Cyclopean faces of the god - king . The wall of the gallery of the external portico is decorated with bas - re- liefs that depicts battle scenes , but especially scenes of everyday life of ...
... four towers , upon each of which is carved four Cyclopean faces of the god - king . The wall of the gallery of the external portico is decorated with bas - re- liefs that depicts battle scenes , but especially scenes of everyday life of ...
Page 271
... four - fronted arch built in A.D. 203 on the orders of Septimius Severus , in his own honour : the man who had come from that poverty - stricken , sun - baked area , one of the least valued corners of the entire Roman Empire , had risen ...
... four - fronted arch built in A.D. 203 on the orders of Septimius Severus , in his own honour : the man who had come from that poverty - stricken , sun - baked area , one of the least valued corners of the entire Roman Empire , had risen ...
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... four plat- forms ; the fifth platform that we see today was reconstructed by mistake by the first scholar of the site , Leopoldo Batres , at the beginning of the twentieth century . The city is divided into two sections by the canal of ...
... four plat- forms ; the fifth platform that we see today was reconstructed by mistake by the first scholar of the site , Leopoldo Batres , at the beginning of the twentieth century . The city is divided into two sections by the canal of ...
Contents
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