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Ancient Egypt captures the imagination like few other historical places or periods. Its art and buildings decorated in bold, bright colours are instantly recognisable the world over. The Egyptian civilization lasted for over 3 millennia, and despite periods of foreign rule, its art remained unchanged until after the death of Cleopatra. Ancient Egypt was an almost obsession of the intrepid antiquarians of the 18th and 19th century, and has been used as a theme for many cinematic blockbusters since the arrival of film and television. Few could deny the iconic imagery of the Hollywood star...

The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman soldiers marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of re-enactments. In its study of the panoply of shields used by the Roman army, this book differs from those preceding in that it has combined the reams of published information on sculptural imagery and archaeological hard evidence...