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The Writing in the Stone
ISBN: 9781911487203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The landscape of this dark and powerful story is the ancient world of Assyria some 3000 years ago, a time when writing was in the world's oldest script, cuneiform, and the domination of unseen forces firmly in the hands of the state's leading Exorcist.
The landscape of this dark and powerful story is the ancient world of Assyria some 3000 years ago, a time when writing was in the world's oldest scrip...
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102,77 zł |
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The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
ISBN: 9781350297050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BC by the Persian king, it records an event which launched one of the...
Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinde...
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208,68 zł |
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Cuneiform
ISBN: 9780714111889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating documents from ancient civilization, written by a variety of people and societies. From reading these tablets we can understand not only the history and economics of the time but also the beliefs, ideas and superstitions. This new book will bring the world in which the cuneiform was written to life for the non-expert reader, revealing how ancient...
Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Me...
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51,35 zł |
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The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
ISBN: 9781529303292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,48 zł |
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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
ISBN: 9780345804396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could hardly believe his luck. What he discovered was a missing piece in the story of Noah and the Ark. In this captivating, absorbing work of scholarship, Finkel, a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, leads the reader on a detective hunt for the prototype of Noah's Ark--from cuneiform wedges to bundles of reeds, from ancient Babylon to modern Iraq, Finkel reveals new information on the origin of the Babylonian Flood story which... When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum,... |
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90,85 zł |
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The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon
ISBN: 9781780760636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Some historical artifacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing discoveries from antiquity as Hammurabi's famous law code or the intact tomb of the boy-king Tutankhamun. For the Cyrus Cylinder contains in microcosm the whole history of its period. Inscribed with an account of the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE by the Persian King, it records an event which launched one of the...
Some historical artifacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinde...
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182,60 zł |
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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
ISBN: 9781444757088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. His real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum - the arrival one day in 2008 of a modest-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet dating from 1850 BC and revealing, among other things, instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood.
British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the N...
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56,48 zł |
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The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity
ISBN: 9789004174467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. From ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform and Meroitic writing to Chinese, Maya and Maldivian script, the authors examine the problems and possibilities of polysemy, representing loanwords and the problems of adapting a writing system to another language. The playful and artistic use of writing, including a contribution on writing dance, further illustrates the intricacies of the systems. This collection of articles aims to highlight the complexity of writing systems rather than to provide a first introduction. The...
The Idea of Writing is an exploration of the versatility of writing systems. From ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform and Meroitic writing to Chinese, ...
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668,23 zł |
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The Last Resort Library
ISBN: 9781904999416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The library is situated," said the short entry in the Guide to British Libraries A-L, "in pleasant rolling countryside not too far from Hereford, and is perhaps most readily accessible by private motor vehicle." This statement was quite accurate. Inaccessibility had always been one of the Library's most prized qualities. "The Last Resort Library was founded in 1962, and is a forward-looking institution with very much its own sense of mission," it continued. The truth was that the Guide compiler had never heard of the Library himself, but someone had mentioned it to him right at the last...
"The library is situated," said the short entry in the Guide to British Libraries A-L, "in pleasant rolling countryside not too far from Hereford, and...
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96,66 zł |
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Disease in Babylonia
ISBN: 9789004124011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published and unpublished medical texts in cuneiform script from the second and first millennia BC.
The present collection of articles on disease in Babylonia is the first such volume to appear providing detailed information derived from published an...
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594,46 zł |
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