Art of the First Cities
Subtitle: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus
Contributors: Joan Aruz (Editor); Ronald Wallenfels (Editor)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781588390431
Subjects: Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Exhibitions; Architecture; Art; Art, Ancient; Cities and towns, Ancient
First sentence: Having crossed the threshold of a new millennium to stand, as we do, in the midst of perhaps the most intensely urban environment in the world, one often feels disassociated from the ancient past and the great civilizations to which it gave rise.