Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950

by Billie Melman

Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198824556
• ISBN13: 9780198824558
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"