History of Art: Ancient & Classical Art, BCE to c 500 CE

The Admonitions scroll is an internationally recognized masterpiece of narrative painting and is arguably the earliest surviving Chinese painting. ...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the arc...

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and t...

Throughout Egypts long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of language...

This volume is the second joint publication of the members of the American-Egyptian archaeological team South Asasif Conservation Project, working ...

The British Museum has the largest and finest collection of antiquities from Egypt and the Sudan outside of those countries. Packed with informatio...

The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illu...

The ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., drew international attention when excavat...

In ancient Greece, funerary monuments were visual expressions of mourning that provided the opportunity for the living to commemorate and communica...

This handsomely illustrated volume is the second in a series of publications aimed at giving a broad audience deeper insight into the extensive col...

How could something as insubstantial as a ghost be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint? In this original and wide-ranging stu...

National Museums Scotland is home to a world-class collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts. Though a public collection for 150 years, its breadth ...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-ex...

The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especia...

In this study, Eleanor Winsor Leach offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Rome ...

The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the worlds most spectacular collections of ancient silver vessels and other objects made of precious...

Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Gr...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

This book is the first in ten years to present a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and sout...

Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural...

Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

From the Battle of Marathon to the Minotaur, from the Acropolis to Aristotle, from Theseus to the Theban hegemony, from slavery to Sparta, The Ency...

This beautiful volume explores the lesser-known history of Europe and the Mediterranean, bridging the gap between the Mediterranean and the North o...

This brief guide to the collections of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens provides general information about all the collections, with an...