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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... surrounded by streets that followed an orthogonal layout ) as well as the houses , and adopting a nomenclature that is still used today . To date , the excavations have unearthed some two - thirds of the urban area , equal to 44 ...
... surrounded by streets that followed an orthogonal layout ) as well as the houses , and adopting a nomenclature that is still used today . To date , the excavations have unearthed some two - thirds of the urban area , equal to 44 ...
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... surrounded on every side by a vast circuit of sand , and it is as it were isolated by Nature from the world , having a destiny of its own between the two mighty empires of Rome and Parthia , and at the first moment of a quarrel between ...
... surrounded on every side by a vast circuit of sand , and it is as it were isolated by Nature from the world , having a destiny of its own between the two mighty empires of Rome and Parthia , and at the first moment of a quarrel between ...
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... surrounded by high walls with great doors which show today the harmonious blending of Islamic and European styles of the seventeenth - century Maghreb . Ksar of Aït - Ben - Haddou The Ksar , a group of earthen buildings surrounded by ...
... surrounded by high walls with great doors which show today the harmonious blending of Islamic and European styles of the seventeenth - century Maghreb . Ksar of Aït - Ben - Haddou The Ksar , a group of earthen buildings surrounded by ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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