In the original dust cover. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

Condition: Please view the photographs. A £3 reduction when collected from the FBA shop. 

Essential Reading for an understanding of our past.

Archaeological and scholarly investigation underlies a study of the cultural, political, architectural, social, and historical development and significance of the ancient metropolis.

Joan Louise Oates, FBA (née Lines; 6 May 1928 – 3 February 2023) was an American-British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Ancient Near East. From 1971 to 1995 she was a Fellow and tutor of Girton College, Cambridge, and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. From 1995 she was a Senior Research Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. From 2004 she was director of the excavations of Tell Brak, having been                  co-director, with her husband, David Oates, between 1988 and 2004.