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Focus on Fortifications : New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East by Rune Frederiksen;Mike Schnelle;Silke Muth;Peter Schneider ; & Silke Muth & Peter I. Schneider & Mike Schnelle is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and scholars from the very beginning of research on antiquity from the late 18th century onwards, the architectural, economic, logistical, political, urban and other social aspects of fortifications have been somewhat overlooked and underestimated by scholarship in the 20th century. The book presents the research of a new generation of scholars who have been analyzing those aspects of fortifications, many of them with years of experience in fieldwork on city walls. Much new evidence and a fresh look at this important category of built structure is now made available, and the publication will be of interest not only to the field of ancient architecture, but also to other sub-disciplines of archaeology and ancient history.The papers were presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012, and they all present material and discuss topics unde

Author

Rune Frederiksen;Mike Schnelle;Silke Muth;Peter Schneider ; & Silke Muth & Peter I. Schneider & Mike Schnelle

Publisher

Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781785701344

Subjects

History, Engineering, Military