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The British Museum Colouring Book of the Vikings
The British Museum Colouring Book of the Vikings

Childrens books |

16 pages, paperback. The Vikings were feared around Europe as warriors and raiders but they also had a more peaceful aspect as traders and settlers. They were skilled seafarers who travelled far, and their heroic sagas are still popular today. This colour

Hokusai's Great Wave (4, 2011) | Timothy Clark
Hokusai's Great Wave (4, 2011) | Timothy Clark

Kunsthistorie > Kunst: teknikker og motiver > Bøger om kunst og kultur |

Taking an intimate look at the Waves artistic and historical significance and its influence on popular culture, this concise introduction explains why Hokusais modern masterpiece had such an impact after its creation in 1830 and why it continues to fascin

Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs (4, 2007) | Angela McDonald
Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs (4, 2007) | Angela McDonald

Genealogi, heraldik og navnehistorie > Historie: specielle begivenheder > Historie > Historie og samfund |

A handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had grea

Viking Poetry of Love and War
Viking Poetry of Love and War

History & military |

This colourful book published by the British Museum, is an accessible introduction to the broad poetry ranges of the Vikings, from the highly formal to the light-hearted and bawdy. The selection is taken from a variety of sources from the 10th to the 13th

Cuneiform (4, 2015) | Irving Finkel,Jonathan Taylor
Cuneiform (4, 2015) | Irving Finkel,Jonathan Taylor

Mellemøstens historie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating docu

Runes (4, 2014) | Martin Findell
Runes (4, 2014) | Martin Findell

Europæisk historie > Historie > Historie og samfund |

From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic la

Netsuke (4, 2014) | Noriko Tsuchiya
Netsuke (4, 2014) | Noriko Tsuchiya

Kunsthistorie > Kunst: teknikker og motiver > Bøger om kunst og kultur |

Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this is due to the phenomenal success of Edmund De Waals 2010 book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, which highlights a treasured netsuke collection that was challenged by

The Medieval Cookbook (4, 2012) | Maggie Black
The Medieval Cookbook (4, 2012) | Maggie Black

Madlavning & opskrifter > Kogebøger |

Drawing on the cuisine of the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire to Henry VIII's break with Rome, this new treatment of a classic book explores the relationship between food, religion and the ever-widening gap between the tables of the rich an