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A collaboration between a talented graphic designer and two historians, this beautifully produced large-format book was originally published in French, but the English translation is fluent. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roman fresco, Pompeii. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be ...