Rome and Its Empire (Routledge Revivals)

<p>In <i>Rome and Its Empire</i> <i> </i>first published in 1989 Stephen Johnson examines our understanding of the archaeological aspects of Roman civilisation and traces the development of archaeology from the earliest post-Roman times through to its real discovery in the eighteenth century and its burgeoning in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The emphasis is on <i>how </i>archaeologists examine and classify material and the various ways in which valid historical conclusions are deduced from that evidence. </p>