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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found 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 BCEto the present day... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - 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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Etruscan Art (World of Art) by Nigel Jonath Spivey Publisher Comments The most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification, the Etruscan civilization continues to fire the imagination. In this new book, the first survey of its kind in more than 20 years, Nigel Spivey brings the Etruscan world to life... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans by J Hughes Publisher Comments In Pan's Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome and Environs : an Archaeological Guide (07 Edition) by Filippo Coarelli Publisher Comments This superb guide at last brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and best known scholars of Roman archeology and art, to a wide, English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Review... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove by Joseph Jay Deiss Publisher Comments In A.D. 79, Herculaneum, a small resort town on Italy's western coast, was buried, along with its larger neighbor Pompeii, under an avalanche of lava and ash by Mount Vesuvius. So deep were the towns buried that over the centuries even the memory of them... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.45 Used - Hardcover
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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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Revealing Antiquity #11: Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker Publisher Comments Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture by Leonard Barkan Publisher Comments The rediscovery of some of the most famous artworks of all time--statues lying underground beneath Rome--launched a thrilling archaeological adventure in the 15th century. In this remarkable book, Barkan probes the impact of these magnificent finds on... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History by Sybille Haynes Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - 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: $21.97 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 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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Rome and the Barbarians: The Birth of a New World by Jean-jacques (edt) Aillagon Publisher Comments It is now a well-recognized fact that during the Roman Empire, tens of millions of Germans crossed its border. Germanic mercenaries served loyally under Julius Caesar, first as auxiliaries, later as legionaries, while some reached important military... (read more) Your price: $115.00 New - Hardcover
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Pompeii: The Vanished City by Time Life Books 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: $4.88 Used - Hardcover
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fell, and Other Strange Connections by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Colosseum by Keith Hopkins Publisher Comments Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part Iand Part II) Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lost World of Pompeii by Colin Amery Publisher Comments A history of Pompeii from its origins to its destruction which also explains the ongoing conservation and archealogical work that takes place on the site today. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by Colin Caldicott this book is published in... (read more) Your price: $19.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Etruscans (British Museum Paperbacks) by Ellen Macnamara Book News Annotation Macnamara (British Museum) traces the rise and fall of the Etruscans and describes their language, religion, government, economy, dress, and leisure activities. The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings of Etruscan sites and objects from... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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