Product Description: With over 300 original photographs, as well as charts, architectural plans, and reproductions of engravings and ancient watercolors, Damascus provides a rich and thorough introduction to the architectural and archeological history of one of the world's great cities...read more

Product Description: Samarkand, Boukhara, Khiva: centered around these Central Asian cities is a spectacular artistic heritage of architecture and decoration that has remained, until recently, just out of reach of globalization. The informed text and architectural detail captured in color photography, plans, and notes of Samarkand reinstates the magnificent mosques, fortresses, and residences to their proper place in the study of Islamic art...read more

Product Description: A German translation of Degeorge's fully-illustrated tour through the archaeology and history of the Hellenistic city of Palmyra in Syria. Degeorge's discussions on such subjects as life in the desert, nomadic populations, the construction of the city and its fine buildings, its temples and beliefs, graves and burial practices, are supported by large colour photographs which highlight the architectural and artistic achievements of this desert city...read more

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