Voués à Ishtar : Syrie, janvier 1934, André Parrot découvre Mari : Exposition au musée de l'Institut du monde arabe 23 janvier-4 mai 2014 /
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Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, du 23 janvier au 4 mai 2014. Il y a tout juste quatre-vingts ans, à peine une vie d'homme, André Parrot mettait au jour en Syrie une petite statue avec une inscription sur l'épaule qui lui révélait le nom ancien de la ville, Mari, dont la fouille débutait. À regarder les photographies en noir et blanc prises alors, on peut aisément concevoir l'émotion qu'il en ressentit. Cependant, loin de la vision romantique de l'archéologue-héros développée depuis par un certain cinéma, les photographies des premières campagnes conduites sur le site montrent un quotidien différent, soucieux d'une vision à la fois large des vestiges dans leur environnement, grâce aux photos aériennes prises avec le concours de l'armée, et au plus près du sol d'où sont, patiemment, excavés les fondations de cet ensemble urbain ainsi qu'un abondant matériel, catalogué avec soin, soir après soir.
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312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
2351593944
9782351593943 :
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Essouk-Tademekka : an early Islamic trans-Saharan market town /
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Essouk-Tadmekka presents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ivory to the Mediterranean world. Excavation of Essouk-Tadmekka's ruins - in Saharan West Africa - has enabled Sam Nixon and a team of scholars to better understand this town described by early Arabic geographers, therein providing insights into such wider questions as the origins of trans-Saharan trade, the commerce in gold, and the arrival of Islamic culture in West Africa. This window into the earliest period of trans-Saharan exchange includes illustration of some of the best-preserved ruins along the camel-caravan routes, the earliest-known Arabic writing in West Africa, and rare gold-working remains. Contributors are: Stephanie Black, Sophie Desrosiers, Laure Dussubieux, Thomas Fenn, Dorian Fuller, James Lankton, Kevin MacDonald, Paulo de Moraes Farias, Mary-Anne Murray, Sam Nixon, Thilo Rehren, Peter Robertshaw, Jane Sidell, and Benoit Suzanne.
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1 online resource (xxiii, 422 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004348998 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
All those Nations : Cultural Encounters within and with the Near East /
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This collection of studies treats the theme of cultural (and other) confrontations between different groups (ethnic, or linguistic, or political, or religious...) within the Middle East, but also in some contributions, the types of confrontation between the West and the Middle East.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004502161
9789056930325
Qatar : evidence of the Palaeolithic earliest people revealed /
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This work, with full text in English and Arabic, synthesises the results of extensive fieldwork by the PADMAC Unit (Kellogg College, Oxford) with diverse historical records and reports of earlier investigations, to tell the story of the long and difficult search to discover the identity of the first people to inhabit the sovereign State of Qatar.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Published in association with PADMAC Unit.
"This book is an accompaniment to the published papers, posters and articles that detail the research undertaken from 2009 to 2020 in the State of Qatar by the PADMAC Unit"--Title page verso.
Second sequence of pages is numbered in Arabic script. :
1 online resource (128, 119 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270517 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Taqrīr shāmil ʻan al-ḥafrīyāt al-atharīyah fī Jazīrat Faylakā, ʻām 1958-1963 = Archaeological investigations in the Island of Failaka, 1958-1964.
: At head of title : Ministry of Guidance and Information. Department of Antiquity & Museums. : ca. 75 leaves of plates, [24] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.