Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University. She also writes a blog called A Don’s Life, and she is the editor of an excellent new series of books, The Wonders of the World. The latter is “a small series of books that will focus on some of the world’s most famous sites or monuments.”

A few notable titles in that series include Mary Beard’s own book about The Parthenon; her collaboration with Keith Hopkins for The Colosseum; Cathy Gere’s extraordinary look at The Tomb of Agamemnon (previously discussed on BLDGBLOG here); and many others, including books about Westminster Abbey, The Temple of Jerusalem, and The Alhambra, with other titles ranging from the birth of Egyptology to the history of British railways and the First World War.

on books for the “intelligent ignorant”. the series sounds like a must-read