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