Author: Tim Bellens
Title: Antwerp An Archealogical View on the Origin of the City
Description: Pandora Publishers, 2020 Hardcover, 240 x 170 mm, 192 pages throughout colour illustrations / ENGLISH edition. ISBN 9789053254707. ¶ ANTWERP An Archealogical View on the Origin of the City / Imagine Antwerp without Rubens, without van Dyck, without the many artists who put the Scheldt city on the map in distant museums. Forget the Cathedral of Our Lady with its elegant, proud tower, forget the Antwerp diamond trade, forget the beating harbor heart with its thousands of shiploads. Forget almost everything you know in the Scheldt city. This book takes you to an unknown Antwerp, when the city was not yet a city, but a place along the river, a settlement that no one can suspect will grow into a metropolis. Where are the roots of Antwerp? Why do people settle there exactly and keep coming back? How can a once simple yard grow into a prosperous trading city, proud and strong? To better understand the origins and DNA of the city, the author digs for centuries-old traces and artefacts during excavations right in the medieval city center: in and around the Steen, the Scheldt quays.. This book offers new insights into the city's least known history, from its inception to its earliest growth, from embryo to adolescent.

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