Treasure: Finding Our Past

by Richard Hobbs

Treasure, which comes from the Greek word thesauros, has a number of meanings in modern parlance. 'Buried treasure' and 'sunken treasure' are concepts which many have grown up with, either through reading books or playing computer games. The combination of precious objects - such as gold and silver or rare gems - and the discovery of these, is the essence of how treasure is perceived by twenty-first-century minds. For archaeologists, however, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714123218
• ISBN13: 9780714123219
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.0"