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From function to monument : urban landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia
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ISBN: 1900188139 9781900188135 Year: 1997 Volume: 66 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow

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Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land.
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ISBN: 1316015343 1108079253 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens (1805-52) was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology, through his rediscovery of the Mayan civilization (his two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is also reissued in this series). But before that, having qualified and practised as a lawyer in New York, he went on a two-year journey through Egypt and the Near East, publishing an account of his experiences in 1837 (under the name of George Stephens): this reissue is of the expanded 1838 edition. The work was extremely popular, possibly because, as he states in the preface, Stephens writes 'without perplexing himself with any deep speculations upon the rise and fall of empires', nor does he give much archaeological detail. Volume 2 sees Stephens heading towards Aqaba, whence he moves northward, visiting Petra, Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea before returning to the coast at Tyre and sailing back to Alexandria.


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Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land.
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ISBN: 1316015327 1108079245 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens (1805-52) was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology, through his rediscovery of the Mayan civilization (his two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is also reissued in this series). But before that, having qualified and practised as a lawyer in New York, he went on a two-year journey through Egypt and the Near East, publishing an account of his experiences in 1837 (under the name of George Stephens): this reissue is of the expanded 1838 edition. The work was extremely popular, possibly because, as he states in the preface, Stephens writes 'without perplexing himself with any deep speculations upon the rise and fall of empires', nor does he give much archaeological detail. Volume 1 begins with Stephens' arrival at Alexandria in Egypt, and his journey down the Nile to the Cataracts; it ends with a visit to St Catherine's monastery in Sinai.


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Roman Arabia
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ISBN: 0674777557 9780674777552 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

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The Function of the Roman Army in Southern Arabia Petraea
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ISBN: 1784919535 1784919527 9781784919535 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress

Geography, urbanisation and settlement patterns in the Roman Near East
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ISBN: 0860788776 Year: 2002 Publisher: Aldershot ; Burlington Ashgate

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