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Book The Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Download or read book The Istanbul Archaeological Museum written by İlhan Akşit and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Download or read book Istanbul Archaeological Museums written by Alpay Pasinli and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scramble for the Past

Download or read book Scramble for the Past written by Zainab Bahrani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rick Steves Istanbul

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  • Author : Lale Surmen Aran
  • Publisher : Rick Steves
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 1631213067
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Rick Steves Istanbul written by Lale Surmen Aran and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Istanbul. Following Rick's self-guided tours, you'll experience the wonders of East and West in this fascinating city—the capital of two great empires. Explore one of the world's largest domed churches, haggle with merchants in the exotic Grand Bazaar, and discover the secrets of the sultan's harem in Topkapi Palace. Wander through monumental mosques, shop along sophisticated avenues, and watch whirling dervishes in action. Cruise the Bosphorus for a quick trip to Asia, and end the day relaxing in a Turkish bath. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants in delightful neighborhoods. You'll learn how to get around on the city's trams and ferries, and which sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.

Book About Antiquities

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  • Author : Zeynep Çelik
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2016-11-15
  • ISBN : 1477310614
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book About Antiquities written by Zeynep Çelik and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunderstandings—all with the underlying element of financial gain. Indeed, “who owns antiquity?” is a contentious question in many of today’s international conflicts. About Antiquities offers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between archaeology and empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century. Starting at Istanbul and focusing on antiquities from the Ottoman territories, Zeynep Çelik examines the popular discourse surrounding claims to the past in London, Paris, Berlin, and New York. She compares and contrasts the experiences of two museums—Istanbul’s Imperial Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—that aspired to emulate European collections and gain the prestige and power of owning the material fragments of ancient history. Going beyond institutions, Çelik also unravels the complicated interactions among individuals—Westerners, Ottoman decision makers and officials, and local laborers—and their competing stakes in antiquities from such legendary sites as Ephesus, Pergamon, and Babylon. Recovering perspectives that have been lost in histories of archaeology, particularly those of the excavation laborers whose voices have never been heard, About Antiquities provides important historical context for current controversies surrounding nation-building and the ownership of the past.

Book Byzantium  330 1453

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  • Author : Robin Cormack
  • Publisher : Royal Academy Books
  • Release : 2008-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781905711260
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Byzantium 330 1453 written by Robin Cormack and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantinisches Reich.

Book Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Download or read book Istanbul Archaeological Museum written by Alpay Pasinli and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul  Volume 1

Download or read book Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul Volume 1 written by R. Martin Harrison and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first volume of two that will be the full report of major excavations carried out by Dumbarton Oaks and the Istanbul Archaeological Museum at Sarachane in the heart of ancient Constantinople. This volume includes discussion of excavation and stratigraphy; catalogs of sculpture, revetment, mosaic, small finds and other materials: and general treatment of architecture, sculpture, and history of the site. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Download or read book Istanbul Archaeological Museum written by Wander Stories and published by WanderStories. This book was released on 2013-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Traveler, Welcome to the WanderStories™ tour of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. We, at WanderStories™, are storytellers. We don’t tell you where to eat or sleep, we don’t intend to replace a typical travel reference guide. Our mission is to be the best local guide that you would wish to have by your side when visiting the sights. So, we meet you at the sight and take you on a tour. WanderStories™ travel guides are unique because our storytelling style puts you alongside the best local guide who tells you fascinating stories and unusual facts recreating the passion and sacrifice that forged the beauty of these places right here in front of you, while a wealth of high quality photos, historic pictures, and illustrations brings your tour vividly to life. Our promise: • when you visit the Istanbul Archaeological Museum with this travel guide you will have the best local guide at your fingertips • when you read this travel guide in the comfort of your armchair you will feel as if you are actually visiting the Istanbul Archaeological Museum with the best local guide Let’s go! Your guide, WanderStories

Book Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums  Part 2

Download or read book Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums Part 2 written by Benjamin R. Foster and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues publication of the Sargonic tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archeological Museums begun with STTI in 1982. Presenting transliterations of 693 texts from this site, it represents a further step towards meaningful engagement with the Sargonic records from Girsu.

Book The House of Fear

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  • Author : IbnESafi
  • Publisher : Random House India
  • Release : 2011-12-02
  • ISBN : 8184002556
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The House of Fear written by IbnESafi and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the world Imran may appear to be a rich, handsome buffoon with his sports car, eccentric dress sense and bizarre sense of humour—but in reality he possesses a razor-sharp mind, and the agility, strength and quick wits of the perfect spy. His colleagues at the secret service make fun of him, but little do they know that he is their mastermind chief X2—a man who can defeat any enemy and solve all mysteries. Detective Imran is spy-novelist Ibn-e Safi’s greatest creation and the bestselling Imran series are Urdu cult classics, translated into English for the first time. The House of Fear: Dead bodies have been found in an abandoned house, each bearing three identical dagger marks, exactly five inches apart. Who is behind these eerie murders? Only Imran can solve this mystery. The House of Fear is the first book in the Imran series. Shootout at the Rocks: Colonel Zargham knows he is in grave danger when he receives a three-inch wooden monkey in the mail. This is no ordinary threat, but a warning from the two-hundred-years-old Li Yu Ka, one of the world’s deadliest gangs. The monkey will be followed by a wooden snake, and then a wooden rooster, after which the colonel will be swiftly murdered. Only one man stands between Li Yu Ka and his death: genius sleuth, Ali Imran.

Book Bab El Gasus in Context

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  • Author : Kathlyn M. Cooney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9788891320681
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Bab El Gasus in Context written by Kathlyn M. Cooney and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers a collection of studies by leading scholars on the Tomb of the Priests of Amun (Bab el-Gasus), where the burials of 153 individuals who lived under the 21st Dynasty have been unearthed, revealing the largest undisturbed tomb ever found in Egypt. This is the first publication to present a coherent vision of this find, with papers addressing a variety of topics including: the reorganization of the Theban necropolis under the 21st Dynasty; the sociological significance of the burials, as well as the funerary goods associated with them; the history of the collections that had been given away to foreign countries in 1893, including their reception and subsequent treatment in museums around the world and in Egypt; carpentry and decoration of anthropoid coffins, using non-invasive analysis of materials; and finally, diversity and meaning of coffin decoration. The volume releases the papers first presented at the international conference held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the discovery of the Tomb.

Book   stanbul Archaeological Museums

Download or read book stanbul Archaeological Museums written by Alpay Pasinli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Download or read book Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums written by Veysel Donbaz and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. This book was released on 1982 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text in Sumerian; prefatory material in English and Turkish.

Book Istanbul

Download or read book Istanbul written by İlhan Akşit and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possessors and Possessed

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  • Author : Wendy Shaw
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-06-12
  • ISBN : 0520928563
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Possessors and Possessed written by Wendy Shaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums—characteristically Western institutions—emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. In contrast to late-nineteenth-century Euro-American museums, which utilized organizational schema based on positivist notions of progress to organize exhibits of fine arts, Ottoman museums featured military spoils and antiquities long before they turned to the "Islamic" collections with which they might have been more readily associated. The development of these various modes of collection reflected shifting moments in Ottoman identity production. Shaw shows how Ottoman museums were able to use collection and exhibition as devices with which to weave counter-colonial narratives of identity for the Ottoman Empire. Impressive for both the scope and the depth of its research, Possessors and Possessed lays the groundwork for future inquiries into the development of museums outside of the Euro-American milieu.

Book Chasing Aphrodite

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  • Author : Jason Felch
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Release : 2011-05-24
  • ISBN : 0547538022
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Chasing Aphrodite written by Jason Felch and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting