a catalogue based on the Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun coins in the British Museum, 1st−5th centuries AD
by Joe Cribb and Robert Bracey
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861591916
Pub Date: 2025-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
410 Pages
The coinage of the Kushan kings (1st to 4th centuries) and of their immediate successors the Sasanian Kushanshahs (3rd−4th centuries) and the Kidarite Hun Kushanshahs (4th−5th centuries) are a key component of our understanding of the history of ancient Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the early centuries AD.
This book casts light on a much neglected phase of the UNESCO world heritage site of Palmyra, namely the period between the fall of the Palmyrene ‘Empire’ (AD 272) and the end of the Umayyad dominion (AD 750).
Presents new archaeological data on the economic development of southern Iran and the Persian Gulf coast from the Sasanian period to the end of the 17th century, including analysis of ceramic assemblages spanning 900 years of occupation and pottery production..
Studies on the Interaction of Religion and Society from Antiquity to Modern Times
by Catalin-Stefan Popa
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9783643914262
Pub Date: 2023-07-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: LIT Verlag
370 Pages
The volume is the result of a Lecture Series onThe Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, whichengaged scholars on topics related to the cultural andreligious diversity of the historical Levant. Like...
Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833–1838
by Elizabeth Errington
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780861592197
Pub Date: 2021-09-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Museum
120 Pages
The book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar now in the British Museum, supplemented by illustrated coins recorded in Masson's archival manuscripts and in H.H. Wilson, but no longer in the collection.
From AD 500–1000, the Indian Ocean emerged as a global commercial center, and by around 750–800 a sophisticated trade network had been established involving the movement of goods from Japan and China in the east, to southern Africa and Spain in the west.
War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford
by Claud Williams
Edited by Russell McGuirk
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781900971966
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: British Institute for Libyan and Northern African
288 Pages
Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, first-hand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the ...
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