Evaluating Written and Visual Texts
Subject:
Archeology
Art
Museum Studies
Region:
North Africa
Levant
"The Emperor from Africa" tells readers about Septimius Severus, ruler of the Roman Empire from 193–211 CE. It also offers readers some extraordinary photographs by renowned photographer Don McCullin. This lesson has you reading two types of texts: the written and the visual (photographs).
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