From an antique land : ancient and modern in the Middle East /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : M. Parrish, [1954]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The land
  • Byblos: doorway of many pasts
  • Baalbek and the proliferation of divinity
  • Lebanon: Phoenician land
  • Turkey: past and present
  • Modern Jordan and ancient Persia
  • Damascus, port of the desert
  • Palmyra, the caravan empire
  • North Syria and its dead cities
  • Baghdad and the twin rivers
  • The birth of civilization
  • Persia and its blue mosques
  • On the banks of the Nile
  • Pyramids
  • The Egyptian past
  • Knossos and the Minoan civilization
  • And last
  • Both sides of the Jordan rift.