This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explore

This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “na

Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchang

For more than 200 years, archaeological sites in the Middle East have been dug, sifted, sorted, and saved by local community members who, in turn, developed imm

In the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation