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Architecture, Ancient

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• Archaeology
• Architecture

• Architecture, Ancient -- Egypt
• Architecture, Ancient -- Greece
• Pyramids

• Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008), by Dieter Arnold, contrib. by James P. Allen (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford (including works by Newton; 2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley, 1737), by John Greaves, contrib. by Isaac Newton and Thomas Birch (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Miracle in Stone: or, The Great Pyramid of Egypt (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1877), by Joseph A. Seiss
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865 (London, H. Greenwood, 1870), by C. Piazzi Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883), by W. M. Flinders Petrie (illustrated HTML with commentary at ronaldbirdsall.com)

• The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid (London, Reeves and Turner, 1882), by C. Staniland Wake (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (5th edition; New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1890), by C. Piazzi Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Light from the Great Pyramid (New York: Metaphysical Pub. Co., 1893), by A. R. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I (South Cemeteries of Lisht, v3; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), by Dieter Arnold, contrib. by Dorothea Arnold, Felix Arnold, and Cheryl Ward Haldane (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Pyramid of Senwosret I (South Cemeteries of Lisht, v1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), by Dieter Arnold, contrib. by Dorothea Arnold and Peter Dorman (PDF at metmuseum.org (Google link may go to wrong book))

• The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883), by W. M. Flinders Petrie (illustrated HTML with commentary at ronaldbirdsall.com)

• Probestücke von Städtemauern des Alten Griechenlands (in German; Munich et al.: J. G. Cotta, 1831), by William Gell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pyramid Scheme, by Dave Freer and Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)

• Obeliscus Pamphilius (in Latin; Rome: L. Grignani, 1650), by Athanasius Kircher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The House of the Hidden Places: A Clue to the Creed of Early Egypt, by W. Marsham Adams (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The New York Obelisk: or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here (adapted from an article in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1993), by Martina D'Alton (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• A Text-Book of European Archaelogy, Volume I: The Palaeolithic Period (only volume published; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the Earth, by James Cocke Southall (page images at MOA)
• Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples, by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac, trans. by N. D'Anvers (Gutenberg text)
• Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions (London: Chapman and Hall, 1919), by Harold Bayley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Opuscula Archaeologica Oscari Montelio, Septuagenario, Dicata D. IX M. SEPT. A. MCMXIII (in German; Stockholm: I. Hæggstrœm, 1913), ed. by Bernhard Salin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, by Emory Adams Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mesopotamian Archaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Percy Stuart Peache Handcock (multiple formats at Google)

• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)

• III Congresso Archeologico Internazionale, Roma, MCMXII: Bollettino Riassuntivo (in Italian; ca. 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)

• The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology (New York: Hawthorn Books, c1960), ed. by Leonard Cottrell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Études de Mythologie et d'Archéologie Égyptiennes (8 volumes of Bibliothèque Égyptologique, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1893-1916), by G. Maspero
  • Volume I (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v1): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v7): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v8): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v27): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v28): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v29): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Bibliothèque Égyptologique v40): multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Sciences: Translated from the German of the Bilder-Atlas (Iconographische Encyclopaedie), Revised and Enlarged by Eminent American Specialists (7 volulmes; Philadelphia: Iconographic Publishing House, c1885-1890), ed. by Daniel G. Brinton, John Foster Kirk, Allan Marquand, W. N. Lockington, William H. Wahl, Robert Grimshaw, John H. Cooper, E. A. Posselt, Louis H. Spellier, and Angelo Heilprin
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnography): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Archaeology, History of culture): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Sculpture and painting): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Architecture): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Constructive arts): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Applied mechanics): multiple formats at archive.org

• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)

• At Susa, the Ancient Capital of the Kings of Persia: Narrative of Travel Through Western Persia And Excavations Made at the Site of the Lost City of the Lilies, 1884-1886 (Philadelphia: Gebbie and Co., 1890), by Jane Dieulafoy and Frank Weitenkampf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cave, Mound, and Lake Dwellers, and Other Primitive People (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1911), by Florence Holbrook
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Shannon Christine Mattern (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration (c2011), ed. by Eric Christopher Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall (page images at escholarship.org)
• Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools: The Quantification and Computerisation of Microwear Analysis, by Roger Grace (HTML in Norway)

• Pacific Island Heritage: Archaeology, Identity and Community (2011), ed. by Jolie Liston, Geoffrey R. Clark, and Dwight Alexander
  • PDF with commentary at ANU E Press
  • page images at JSTOR

• Archaeologia Polona (partial serial archives)
• Zephyrus (in Spanish) (full serial archives)
• Internet Archaeology (1996-) (full serial archives)
• Archaeologiai Értesítő (partial serial archives)
• Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin Social-Economic and Humanitarian Research (2018-) (full serial archives)
• Expedition (partial serial archives)
• The Archaeological Journal (partial serial archives)
• University Museum Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• American Journal of Archaeology (partial serial archives)
• The Antiquaries Journal (partial serial archives)
• Antiquity (partial serial archives)
• Archaeologia (partial serial archives)
• Kokogaku Zasshi (in Japanese) (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the British School at Rome (partial serial archives)
• The Archaeological Review (full serial archives)
• Kokokai (full serial archives)
• Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review (full serial archives)
• Annuario della Regia Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Anthropology, Memoirs (partial serial archives)
• JOUHS: Journal of the Oxford University History Society (partial serial archives)
• The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, ed. by Edward Walford (full serial archives)
• Centralblatt für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte (in German) (full serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Anthropologie (full serial archives)
• The Museum Journal (partial serial archives)
• Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Archaiologikon Deltion (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.