The Cambridge Ancient History
Subtitle: Plates to Volume 4 (The Cambridge Ancient History Plates)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 25, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521305808
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Ancient World History; History; History - General History; Pictorial works; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General; Ancient history; History, Ancient
First sentence: Until extensive and systematic excavations are conducted in occupational levels of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. at the Median capital of Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) the material culture of the Medes, if it was indeed distinctive, will remain an enigma.