From the Romans to the Railways : The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor

"This multi-disciplinary account of the fate of ancient monuments and technologies in Asia Minor studies the processes and their results with the help of archaeology, history, construction engineering, and travel documentation. To clarify changes, their causes and repercussions, it compares infrastructure engineering (transportation, water management, utilitarian architecture) in antiquity with developments over the past 200 years, using the accounts of European travellers and then of excavations. It analyses patterns of and reasons for the deterioration of material life, documenting the perceptions and understanding of Roman antiquities and engineering by populations living amidst ancient Roman art and architecture, roads, and aqueducts. These are complemented by travellers' accounts of the myriad aspects of the plundering of archaeological sites and antiquities"-- Back cover i-xvi.pdf 2 1-28_Greenhalgh_F2 web.pdf 18 29-80_Greenhalgh_F3 web.pdf 62 81-146_Greenhalgh_F4 web.pdf 174 147-200_Greenhalgh_F5 web.pdf 327 201-232_Greenhalgh_F6 web.pdf 451 233-262_Greenhalgh_F7 web.pdf 514 263-280_Greenhalgh_F8 web.pdf 578 281-322_Greenhalgh_F9 web.pdf 617 323-348_Greenhalgh_F10 web.pdf 693 349-368_Greenhalgh_F11 web.pdf 759 369-384_Greenhalgh_F12 web.pdf 803 385-390_Greenhalgh_F13 web.pdf 836 391-432_Greenhalgh_F14 web.pdf 842 433-442_Greenhalgh_index.pdf 884 9789004222199_Greenhalgh_Illustrations-01of01.pdf 894 Traces the fate of antiquities and technologies in Asia Minor, their degradation, and re-use, including the eventual export of treasures to competing Western museums, using technologies re-imported from the West - roads, railways, shipping - into a modernising Ottoman Empire