Atlases of Ancient and Classical Archaeology

I picked these two books in the mid 1990's for my reference library. I was always fascinated by architectural plans and love history so the two combined just seemed to be perfect. Over the intervening decades other things took priority but a few years ago I decided to start reading the books in that reference library. I have now finished these two: Atlas of Ancient Archeology by Jacquetta Hawkes and Atlas of Classical Archeology by MI Finley. It was John Fowler who did the maps and plans for both books.

Both volumes have a lot of sites that are briefly discussed.

Each site has an overall overhead image although some have drawing of artifacts found or 3/4 profile diagrams of the structures.

It was very interesting to read about new places and what work had been done up to the 1970's knowing how much more we have discovered. Two great overviews.