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Free Shipping Location: Terni, Italy Pair of vintage 1940s napkin rings in 800/1000 silver complete with box, in excellent condition. The napkin rings are in embossed silver with a vine shoot ... moremotif. Professionally tested and with 800 hallmarkDimensions: top measures 6 x 3 cm; bottom 3 x 4 cm.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States 212 pages with color tipped in plates of the artwork. The greatest strength, however, are the landscape paintings. Considered the highest category of ... morepainting in China, the landscape embodies the ideals of the Confucian scholar.
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States Second was the invention of writing. In 1922 the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered at the site of the ancient city of Ur, “the remains of two ... morefour-wheeled wagons, the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires”.
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$8.95 Shipping Location: Branch, United States The museum's collection includes more than 700 original Rockwell paintings, drawings, and studies. This has led to the often-deprecatory adjective, "Rockwellesque". ... moreBorn in New York City on February 3, 1894, Rockwell always wanted to be an illustrator.
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$17.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States The tone is set by the very first item in the catalog: a contemporary bust in the round of Queen Elizabeth as Hercules. Much jewelry depended for its ... moresplendor of effect chiefly upon its inlay of brilliantly colored stones, jaspers, agates, lapis lazuli.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Lummi Island, United States I realized that so many aspects of the history of Roman wine were excellent "windows" on how Romans thought and felt about themselves and the diverse ... morepeoples most obviously, the Greeks and the Celts that they had conquered.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: ... moreExquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization by Judith Price. NOTE: We have 75.000 books in our library, almost 10,000 different titles. Odds are we have other copies of this same title in varying conditions, some less expensive, some better condition. We might also have different editions as well(some paperback, some hardcover, oftentimes international editions) If you don’t see what you want, please contact us and ask. We’re happy to send you a summary of the differing conditions and prices we may have for the same title. DESCRIPTION: Hardcover with Dustjacket. Publisher: Running Press(2008) Pages: 144. CONDITION: NEW. New HUGE(11 inch square) hardcover w/dustjacket. Running Press(2008) 144 pages. Pristine and unblemished in every respect. Pages are clean. Crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. Satisfaction unconditionally guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! Meticulous and accurate descriptions! Selling rare and out-of-print ancient history books on-line since 1997. We accept returns for any reason within 14 days! 7595a. PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTIONS AND IMAGES BELOW FOR DETAILED REVIEWS AND FOR PAGES OF PICTURES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER. PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW. PUBLISHER REVIEWS: REVIEW: From the president of the National Jewelry Institute comes the largest collection of the oldest jeweled objects ever assembled. With sparkling photography and history throughout. The book will be supported by a major exhibit of the collection. These gorgeous artifacts; the oldest jeweled armor, weapons, jewelry, household objects, and more, with informative captions and stunning photography on every page, originated in Mesopotamia, Persia, Levant, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic world, from 4000 B.C.E. through 7
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Free Shipping Location: Terni, Italy Double hard-boiled egg cup with antique Italian serving handle in 800/1000 burnished silver, professionally tested and with 800 hallmark.Dimensions 12 ... morex 11 x 5 centimetres. Weight 71.3 grams.Sold with packaging from our vintage jewelers, guarantee and tax receipt.We always try to upload good quality photos, but the lights can create only apparent imperfections.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The British Museum has one of the finest collections of Assyrian artifacts in the world, centered around the famous sculpted reliefs from the palaces ... moreof the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh. Dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries, these sculptures show the kings' exploits in battle and in hunting, and ceremonies at the Assyrian court.
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$19.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Barbara Helwig of Berlin's German Archaeological Institute suspects a radical shift in trade patterns precipitated the decline. The lagoons, marshes, ... moreand streams may have dried up, since even small shifts in rainfall canB.C.
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$1.60 Shipping Location: Berlin, Germany This mass commercial use of stereoscopy for educational and entertainment purposes was promoted by the German physicist and entrepreneur August Fuhrmann ... more(1844–1925) in various major cities in central Europe. He opened the first Kaiser Panorama in 1880 in Breslau. In 1883 he moved it to the Kaiserpassage in Berlin. By 1910 there were branches in about 250 cities on the basis of licensing; over 100,000 stereoscopic images circulated in ring loans. Originally preserved imperial panoramas can now be found in the city museums of Munich and Wels, in the German Historical Museum and in the Märkisches Museum in Berlin, as well as in a museum depot in Neugersdorf (Upper Lusatia), where it was operated until 1936. A support association tries to promote them, and replicas have also been made. In Vien.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Its importance cannot be underestimated. Appointed to the Yucatan following the Spanish conquest of the north, Landa arrived in 1549 A.D. and instantly ... moreset himself to the task of routing out heathenism from among the Mayan converts to Christianity.
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$11.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States He was Guest Curator at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison for the exhibition on the Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, which toured the ... moreU.S. in 1998-1999. He has also been co-curator of the “Tana-Bana: Warp and Weft - The Woven soul of Pakistan”, exhibition with Noorjehan Bilgrami and J. M. Kenoyer, at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, February, 2003, and at the Mingeikan Museum, Tokyo, April-May 2004.
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Free Shipping Location: Terni, Italy Pair of antique napkin holders, early 1900s, in 800/1000 silver embossed with grape shoots motif. Interior worked gold plated with Vermeil technique. ... moreProfessionally tested and with 800 punch.Dimensions: diameter 4.8cm; height 4.2cm.
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$11.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Rather its stories involve love and luck, dreams and demons, prowess and political intrigue. It begins with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation ... moreand its tumultuous history. It contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles.
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$13.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States It has gone missing, part of the looting that has taken place across Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. They serve as reminders of magnificent ancient ... moreart that may be lost forever. More than fifty experts in the field have contributed entries on individual works of art and essays covering a wide range of subjects.
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States 212 pages with color tipped in plates of the artwork. The greatest strength, however, are the landscape paintings. Considered the highest category of ... morepainting in China, the landscape embodies the ideals of the Confucian scholar.
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$1.60 Shipping Location: Berlin, Germany Period of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714):During his military career, Eberhard Ludwig was drawn into a conflict between the major European ... morepowers at the turn of the century, the so-called War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). On the 1st In November 1700, the Spanish King Charles II, who came from the Habsburg dynasty, died. He had named Philip V of Anjou, the grandson of his brother-in-law Louis XIV, in his will. of France, appointed as successor. Dynastically, however, the Austrian Habsburgs under Emperor Leopold I saw themselves as the only legitimate successors to the Spanish throne. After Louis XIV. After Philip V was installed as Spanish king and took possession of the Spanish possession of Milan, Leopold I sent an army to northern Italy with which he began the War.
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$12.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and silver objects dating back to the fifth and fourth centuries BC. From the banks of the River ... moreOxus, the entire hoard was, in due course, bequeathed to the British Museum.
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Free Shipping Location: Terni, Italy Vintage Italian 1960s rectangular box with leaves and grape bunches decoration in 800/1000 silver, silver vermeil interior.Dimensions 3.2 x 2.2 x 1.2 ... morecentimeters.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States And "who were the earliest inhabitants?". CONDITION : NEW/LIKE NEW. HUGE hardcover w/dustjacket in mylar. Reader's Digest (1986) 320 pages. Book is new ... moreand unmistakably unread, however dustjacket does show mild shelfwear.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States 212 pages with color tipped in plates of the artwork. The greatest strength, however, are the landscape paintings. Considered the highest category of ... morepainting in China, the landscape embodies the ideals of the Confucian scholar.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : This is the classic, quintessential study of the Amarna Age and the conditions in the surrounding ancient world written by one of history’s greatest ... moreEgyptologists. This is considered the most significant study of its kind, even eight decades after it was originally published.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Its importance cannot be underestimated. Appointed to the Yucatan following the Spanish conquest of the north, Landa arrived in 1549 A.D. and instantly ... moreset himself to the task of routing out heathenism from among the Mayan converts to Christianity.
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$325.62 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Berlin, Germany Unless otherwise stated, all prices are final prices. The prices are calculated according to §25a differential taxation. Solid wood, mahogany veneered. ... moreRectangular cover plate over a single frame. The base is cut out in an arch shape. Fine chased bronze applications, gold-plated. There is an additional pull-out worktop/writing board below the cover plate. Rectangular, faceted mirror in the attachment. The entire body is flanked by 4 full columns which are also equipped with bronze fittings. Excellent warm patina that has grown over decades. Age-related signs of wear. Comes from a Berlin estate. Due to the circumstances, we would like to point out that the objects on offer have generally been in use for between 80 and 300 years and therefore cannot be in new condition. These are exhibition.
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$37.37 Shipping Location: SALFORD, United Kingdom (2001 Census). Ray Bradbury Award for. Call sign CSM: Columbia. Coronation 2 June 1953. Relations Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (father). "A Study in Pink" ... more(2010) "A Scandal in Belgravia" (2012). Arlington, Virginia.
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$54.27 Shipping Location: Berlin, Germany Unless otherwise stated, all prices are final prices. The prices are calculated according to §25a differential taxation. T-Mr-14-Bp Franz candelabra / ... moretable candlestick in the old, antique Empire style (1820) North central Persia. Cream-colored mirror with matching oval medallions and pendants filling the field, short flower branches on the outer contours. Corner gussets analogous to the medallions. Main border with palmettes and floral wavy tendrils. High, dense silk pile. Original finishes on all sides. Fine silk, extremely fine weave in very good condition. Due to the circumstances, we would like to point out that the furniture we offer is generally furniture that has been in use for 80 - 300 years and therefore cannot be in new condition. These are exhibition pieces and may show sli.
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$19.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Barbara Helwig of Berlin's German Archaeological Institute suspects a radical shift in trade patterns precipitated the decline. The lagoons, marshes, ... moreand streams may have dried up, since even small shifts in rainfall canB.C.
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$922.59 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Berlin, Germany Various rosewoods on solid softwood mirror veneer. Sides with panel parquet decorated with latticed, perforated wide measuring strips. Top slab with stepped ... moreveined marble. A conical body in a lion's tail ending in its ends on a three-sided concave base. The obverse is framed with a mercury mask on sunbeams and below crossed branches, below in a tapering form with a vase decorated with flowers, tendrils and flower garlands, flanked by corner fittings with acanthus volutes and garlands. The fittings are distinctive and of exceptionally good quality. Dimensions. Height: 145cm Width: 50cm Depth: 31cm.
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Free Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Aurora, United States Reeded front legs with silver gilt accents. A wheat colored coarse linen weave fabric covers the seat and back. Two striking armchairs with rolled arms ... moreand a striped fabric complete the set. In excellent, near-mint condition.
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$3.94 Shipping Location: Berlin, Germany History: The publishing house was founded on 1. Founded on August 1, 1826 by the merchant, translator and publicist Joseph Meyer (1796-1856) as a publishing ... morehouse (as "an institute dedicated to literary purposes") in Gotha and later relocated to Hildburghausen. The original purpose of the founding was probably the establishment of a general bibliographic newspaper (as a weekly directory initially of all books, music, maps and works of art published in Germany, Switzerland, England, France, the Netherlands and Italy), which (parallel to the one not published by Meyer published but not self-published correspondence sheet for merchants. Weekly report from London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Paris, Berlin etc. about goods, government paper, money and bills of exchange trade.) from 1. January 1827 shou.
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$6.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The book will be distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. There were as well many stories concerning the gods. Principal ... moreamongst them was the creation myth, the “Enuma Elish”.
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$70.32 Shipping Condition: Seller refurbished Location: New York, United States Crotch Mahogany (Faux Bois)Finish, very well done with a gilded border. No International Sales.
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$125.00 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Philadelphia, United States Condition : Missing 2 finials. Minor wear to glass. Good antique condition being structurally sound with age appropriate signs of normal use as pictured. ... moreOverall very nice. Age : 19th Century.
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$48.25 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: New York, United States Mid to late 1800s.
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$120.00 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Sebring, United States One piece of border moulding is missing. There is no makers' mark. I have added an 1833 catalogue, for Reference only, Not included, the first catalog ... moreshowing this type of furniture. This is the type of furniture that would be used with this mirror.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States During the 14th century BC, Armana was founded by Akhenaten to promote his new religion and for 12 years was the capital of the world's greatest empire. ... morePharaoh Akhenaten founded the city of Amarna 3,500 years ago.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The author demonstrates how the symbolism of dynastic power plays a central role in the interpretation of each object and in understanding the assemblage ... moreas a whole. The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were presented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$89.99 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Philadelphia, United States Condition :Very good antique condition being structurally sound with age appropriate signs of normal use as pictured. Overall very nice. Age : Early 20th ... moreCentury.
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Condition: Unspecified Location: Philadelphia, United States Overall very nice. Age : Circa 1900.
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$80.00 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Sebring, United States It has rare original very heavy and thick glass, hand silvered with visible brush strokes. See my other ads for mirrors.I have other marine and 19th century ... moreantiques. You may inquire 1954JAGUARS, or 1954JAGPART.
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$350.00 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Sebring, United States This is original and a standard to judge others by. The fine trees were growing scarce; but architecture changed from Greek Revival to ornate, Victorian, ... moreQueen Anne, and others that needed more dainty or ornate furniture.
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Free Shipping Location: Jordan Dear Byers, I'm offering a gorgeous piece from my collection condition Antique Mirror PersIan Silver 1800s Qajar Dynasty Ottoman Empire Moorish Longest ... morediameter 24CM Thanks
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$140.65 Shipping Condition: Used Location: West Orange, United States Exceptional unusual hand made Antique Salesman Sample Handmade Wood Empire Chest / Cupboard ( I believe American ) with an unusual Reverse Painted Signed ... moreLizzy Ford 1864 mirror as well as a top mirror , paneled doors & columns . I don’t know if Lizzy Ford was the name of the company or perhaps the furniture company custom made it for a good customer or relative etc. It’s probably walnut & has a flame veneer , either mahogany or walnut . Very good antique condition with minimal wear & a couple of minor veneer losses . I do not have the key . Please examine the photos & feel free to ask any questions.Measures 18 3/4” wide x 10” deep x 23” tall
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Free Shipping Location: Indonesia A fine ancient Majapahit bronze mirror. For The Collector and art lover Who Has Everything. we wish you a long life abundant of health wealth and wisdom. ... morewe will reply within 6 hours.
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Condition: Unspecified Location: Philadelphia, United States Details : Carved wood backsplash, spiral carved columns, beautiful wood grain, nicely carved details, original label, 2 drawers, 2 adjustable glass shelves, ... moregreat style and form. Cabinet has a lighted interior but we were not able to get the lights to work.
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Condition: Unspecified Location: Philadelphia, United States Details : Finely cast bronze ormolu, paw feet, gold gilt accents, bronze inlay, marble top, mirror back, stunning crotch mahogany veneer, very nice antique ... moreitem, great style and form. Condition : Very good antique condition being structurally sound with age appropriate signs of normal use as pictured.
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$12.85 Shipping Location: Floral Park, United States This is an original 1925 Kansas City, Missouri Tuttle-Ayers-Woodward Co. Pl at Atlas Map that includes Empire Theatre, Strafford Gardens, Belmont Avenue ... moreChurch, Mirror Pool a nd other noteworthy buildings and structures.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : This is the classic, quintessential study of the Amarna Age and the conditions in the surrounding ancient world written by one of history’s greatest ... moreEgyptologists. This is considered the most significant study of its kind, even eight decades after it was originally published.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Ferndale, United States Second was the invention of writing. In 1922 the archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered at the site of the ancient city of Ur, “the remains of two ... morefour-wheeled wagons, the oldest wheeled vehicles in history ever found, along with their leather tires”.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were ... morepresented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The pectoral is gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise, and the eyes of the shape made of actual flowers, fruits, and leaves, which were ... morepresented to guests to wear at banquets and other festivities.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Britain’s Bronze Age cultures included the Beaker, Wessex, Deverl, and Rimbury. Copper and tin ores are rarely found together, so the production of bronze ... morehas always involved trade. Other significant suppliers of tine were the Taurus Mountains of Anatolia (Turkey), as well as Spain.
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$11.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and silver objects dating back to the fifth and fourth centuries BC. From the banks of the River ... moreOxus, the entire hoard was, in due course, bequeathed to the British Museum.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Lummi Island, United States Pharaoh Akhenaten founded the city of Amarna 3,500 years ago. During the 14th century BC, Armana was founded by Akhenaten to promote his new religion ... moreand for 12 years was the capital of the world's greatest empire.
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$19.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Barbara Helwig of Berlin's German Archaeological Institute suspects a radical shift in trade patterns precipitated the decline. The lagoons, marshes, ... moreand streams may have dried up, since even small shifts in rainfall canB.C.
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Condition: Used Location: Cambiago, Italy DESCRIPTION Central Italy Empire desk, supported by lion feet, on the front it has a retractable door, which can be opened through a mechanism accessible ... moreon the bottom of the cabinet and concealing two drawers, it is surmounted by a smaller drawer. In the upper part there is a retractable roller door, concealing a pull-out desk top with a fake Moroccan insert (replaced later), equipped with a spring system that gives access to secrets; present compartments and drawers. The shelf has a single door with a mirror concealing a castle with compartments and drawers. The uprights on the front have the characteristic truncated-pyramidal shape, ending with gilt bronze drips and surmounted by female herms in burnished bronze in the lower body, while in the upper one there are Egyptian caryatids. In mahogany, the interiors are in chestnut.
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$17.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States The tone is set by the very first item in the catalog: a contemporary bust in the round of Queen Elizabeth as Hercules. Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers ... more(2016). Pages: 320. One of the world’s finest assemblages of rings and gemstones, the Guy Ladrière Collection in Paris is of major importance both to the collector and the art historian.
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