Marina Belozerskaya, To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

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With Simonides, there is of course the connection to imperialism and the museums that arise from it, which created a huge market. I’m currently reading Marina Belozerskaya’s book about the emergence of the antiquities trade.5

5 Marina Belozerskaya, To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology (New York: Norton & Co., 2009)
 
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