Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2024: Petra to the Parthenon

This volume was designed for scholars, pilgrims, and travelers with an interest in early Christian and modern pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The author sets out to date many of the famous Petra monuments, partly through comparison with similar rock-cut tombs at Medain Saleh, in Saudi Arabia.

Largely pictorial work featuring hundreds of temples, tombs, and elaborate buildings carved out of solid stone. This title is available at most online book sites.

A 21st Century approach to looking at the multiple cultures that co-existed, overlapped, and succeeded one another in the Mediterranean.

Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a sophisticated thriller. A 21st Century search for a manuscript.Available through online bookstores.

St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview.

An introduction to a selection of sites and temples. Emerson covers Delphi, Olympia, the Athenian Acropolis, and more. Many illustrations.

Includes sections on ruins of Mada'in Saleh, Al-Ula, the Hejaz Railway, Epigraphs and Nature. This title is available for purchase through used book sites.

"From the publisher: Flourishing in the centuries around the birth of Christ, the Nabataean kingdom covered a large swathe of the north-western Arabian Peninsula and was shaped by cultural influences from the Mediterranean, Arabian and wider Semitic worlds" (from the publisher). This text looks to inscriptions, sculptures, and architectural remains to provide historical perspective and context.

A tour up the Nile through the stories of ancient Egypt

A richly illustrated account of the rulers of the first three dynasties of ancient Egyptian civilization.