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 188
... Tomb , or else the simpler Silk Tomb , named for the extraordinary chromat- ic effect of the veins in the rock from which it was carved . This latter belongs to the type that is most common in Petra , tombs shaped like towers , with the ...
... Tomb , or else the simpler Silk Tomb , named for the extraordinary chromat- ic effect of the veins in the rock from which it was carved . This latter belongs to the type that is most common in Petra , tombs shaped like towers , with the ...
Page 266
... tombs , which instead were dug out of the mountains , safe from violation and tomb - rob- bers . To the north were built the Temple of Qurna al - Gedida , dedicated to Amon - Re , and the temple consecrated to Hathor , the goddess of ...
... tombs , which instead were dug out of the mountains , safe from violation and tomb - rob- bers . To the north were built the Temple of Qurna al - Gedida , dedicated to Amon - Re , and the temple consecrated to Hathor , the goddess of ...
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... Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 hectares of hillside with- in Kampala district . Most of the site is agricultural , farmed by tradi- tional methods . At its ...
... Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 hectares of hillside with- in Kampala district . Most of the site is agricultural , farmed by tradi- tional methods . At its ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
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