first edition Soft Cover
2011 · New Haven
by McKenzie, Judith
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8x1x11. 1st printing. Front cover creased. 2011 Soft Cover. 480 pp. This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millenniumâfrom the cityâs founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious. But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains, written sources, and an array of other fragmentary evidence. (Inventory #: 2337898)