Archaeology

The royal necropolis of New Kingdom Egypt, known as the Valley of the Kings (KV), is one of the most important--and celebrated--archaeological site...

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to th...

A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching ...

If you love Lucinda Riley and Elizabeth Edmondson, you'll love this perfect summer read from the author of Islands of Secrets and Villa of Secrets....

The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to ...

This book is a hands-on resource for the amateur, student or volunteer as well as a reference for those interested in the world's greatest archaeol...

TV presenter Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investig...

This is ancient Greece - but not as we know it. Few people today appreciate that Greek civilization was spread across the Middle East, and that the...

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europ...

Pocket Museum: Ancient Greece presents more than 200 objects currently housed in public collections around the world that offer both context and im...

Whether it’s Tomb Raider or Roman coins, the conventional view of archaeology as a discipline solely preoccupied with long dead cultures is mislead...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wi...

The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publi...

Has the ancient Egyptian cult of immortality resurfaced in Brighton?When a freshly-mummified body is discovered at the Brighton Museum of Natural H...

Bir Umm Fawakhir is a fifth-sixth century AD Coptic/Byzantine gold-mining town located in the central Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Bir Umm Fawakhir...

The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragm...

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The C...

During the late third millennium BC one of the biggest transformations of the ancient Near East took place, affecting almost all regions from Egypt...

Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experien...

The first published archaeological survey of the Egiin Gol valley of Mongolia, spanning the last 30,000 years and centering on the integration of l...

El reconocimiento del papel de los animales en las antiguas dietas, en las economías, políticas y los rituales, es vital para poder entender a las ...