Top 10 Best "Antiquities" Books

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology

Charles K. Dillaway

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Who Owns Antiquity?

James Cuno

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Who Owns Antiquity?

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But in Who Owns Antiquity? , one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this nationalistic position, arguing that it is damaging and often disingenuous. "Antiquities," James Cuno argues, "are the cultural property of all humankind," "evidence of the world's ancient past and not that of a particular modern nation. They comprise antiquity, and antiquity knows no borders."

Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common ac...

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Complete Works of Josephus, Flavius

Flavius Josephus
William Whiston

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Jewelry

Clare Phillips

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Antiquities of the Jews or Jewish Antiquities. Complete interlinked edition. Includes contemporary maps, timelines, family trees, coinage, and units of measure. (Mobi Classics) eBook

Flavius Josephus
William Whiston

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The New Testament in Antiquity

Gary M. Burge
Lynn H. Cohick
Gene L. Green

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Chasing Aphrodite

Jason Felch
Ralph Frammolino

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The World of Late Antiquity

Peter Brown
Geoffrey Barraclough

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The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton

Sebastian Schutze
Madelaine Gisler-Huwiler

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Late Antiquity

Gillian Clark

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The Antiquities of the Jews

Collected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of Flavius Josephus' The Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of the Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins with the creation of Adam and Eve, and follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible, often adding information that we might not otherwise have today. This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish Wars, provides valuable background material to anyone wishing to understand first-century Judaism and the early Christian period. "I have undertaken the present work . . . for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. And indeed I did formerly intend, when I wrote of the war, to explain who the Jews originally were,-what fortunes they had been subject to,-and by what legislature they had been instructed in piety, and the exercise of other virtues,-what wars also they had made in remote ages, till they were unwillingly engaged in...

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The Antiquities of the Jews

Flavius Josephus
William Whiston

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Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology

Charles K. Dillaway

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