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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... linked to rituals of the death and re- birth of plants . The excavations of the Italian archaeolog- ical mission , begun in 1957 , and the protection of UNESCO since 1988 , have made it possi- ble to unearth the entire urbanistic layout ...
... linked to rituals of the death and re- birth of plants . The excavations of the Italian archaeolog- ical mission , begun in 1957 , and the protection of UNESCO since 1988 , have made it possi- ble to unearth the entire urbanistic layout ...
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... linked to the geoglyphs , gathered during the survey done by the Smithsonian Institution of Cambridge in 1969 , attributed most of the ' en- gravings ' to the Nazca cultural phase . Nowa- days we prefer to use a relative dating system ...
... linked to the geoglyphs , gathered during the survey done by the Smithsonian Institution of Cambridge in 1969 , attributed most of the ' en- gravings ' to the Nazca cultural phase . Nowa- days we prefer to use a relative dating system ...
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... linked to storehouses for the preservation of foodstuffs ( Tambo Viejo ) , and ceremonial centres with adjoining zones for the production of ceramics and fabrics ( Cahuachi ) , as well as irrigation canals ( puquio ) , which exploited ...
... linked to storehouses for the preservation of foodstuffs ( Tambo Viejo ) , and ceremonial centres with adjoining zones for the production of ceramics and fabrics ( Cahuachi ) , as well as irrigation canals ( puquio ) , which exploited ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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