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Rome (2ND 10 Edition) by Amanda Claridge Publisher Comments Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. In the new Second Edition of her popular handbook, Amanda Claridge again presents an indispensable guide to all... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Etruscan Art (World of Art) by Nigel Jonath Spivey Publisher Comments The Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the search for this mysterious civilization continues to fire... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome by Peter Connolly Publisher Comments In this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life through the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. For the first time ever, all the evidence has been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel Publisher Comments Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain)... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Etruscans: Italy's Lovers of Life by Time Life Publisher Comments Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pompeii Day a City Died by Robert Etienne Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley Publisher Comments A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found 40 years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them ... Sensational new information about a group of ancient philosophers who were so intensely practical... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, paleontologist Charles Pellegrino, author of the New York Times bestseller Her Name, Titanic, presents a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Mackendrick Synopsis "MacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story." --New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seville, Granada, and Cordoba: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) by Elizabeth Nash Publisher Comments Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos... (read more) Your price: $46.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium by R Holloway Publisher Comments The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (08 Edition) by Mary Beard Publisher Comments Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Medici Conspiracy (06 Edition) by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome Archeological Guide To the Eternal Cit by Sofia Pescarin Publisher Comments Chapter by chapter, this book escorts armchair visitors around the monuments of ancient Rome, bringing history and its protagonists to life.... (read more) Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Der Stechlin: Roman by Theodor Fontane Synopsis This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor... (read more) Your price: $40.75 New - Trade Paper
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Daily Life of the Etruscans by Jacques Heurgon Publisher Comments The Etruscans were the most important--and remarkable--of the peoples who inhabited early Italy. But when the Romans gained supremacy, the distinctive Etruscan culture gradually disappeared. This masterly re-creation of the lives of a now-forgotten... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Discoveries: Search for Ancient Rome (Discoveries) by Claude Moatti Publisher Comments Though Rome has been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, traces of the ancient city--the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column--have never completely disappeared. Scholars and treasure hunters, archaeologists and artists, popes and poets have... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guide to Underground Rome: From Cloaca Massima to Domus Aurea: The Most Fascinating Underground Sites of the Capital by Carlo Pavia Publisher Comments A brief glance at the title of this book immediately brings one question to mind: Is it really possible that so much beauty and such an immense number of unexplored spaces could be hiding underneath Rome? A perfectly legitimate question, since so few... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Ghetto Reveals Rome by Luca Fiorentino Publisher Comments Benjamin walked down from the Capitoline Hill towards the Circus Flaminius in order to reach the other Jews on the banks of the Tiber River at the Tiberina Island. They, who had been Roman Jews for more than a century, would welcome the Jewish slaves... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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