Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic p

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

This comprehensive resource pack, developed in conjunction with education staff, draws on the principles of Alison Bryan’s original Colourful Semantics approa

"In The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan offers the first in-depth study of the words and expressions for colors in the Akkadian la

This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has