Archaeology

In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. Its very unfamil...

The uplands of the Lake District are famed for their rugged natural beauty, but the reality is that this landscape has been modified and changed ...

According to English Heritage, 'Silbury's significance is obscure and we can only hope to understand it if we combine our scientific approach with ...

This volume in the ICAZ series deals with the technical advances made over the last twenty years in the field of ageing and sexing animal bones. Th...

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findi...

Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various...

The Roman Town at Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, was a working archaeological dig the University of Reading Field School which took place every s...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and m...

Building the Bronze Age analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organizatio...

This study of individual Egyptian queens is based on an earlier study, The Wives of the Egyptian Kings, Dynasties I-XVII, which was a doctoral d...

This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many new...

This volumepresents acollection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subj...

The long-standing debate over the origins of violence has resurfaced over the last two decades. There has been a proliferation of studies on violen...

The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, p...

An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no pre...

Landscape and Heritage is a selection of over thirty crucial papers and articles from the international field of landscape and heritage research of...

The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars wh...

Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been...

This volume honors the career and contributions of Andrew M.T. Moore. Moores groundbreaking work at Abu Hureyra, Syria and excavations at Neolithic...

Life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland

Coins have long been a vital part of the discipline of classical studies of the ancient world. However, many scholars have commented that coins hav...

Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its fragrant harbour in 1841. Its fascinating history has been docu...

Carthage is mainly known as the city that was utterly destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC. This book tells the story about this fascinating city, whi...

At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby vill...

This book tells the story of Somersets archaeology and history, from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Generously illustrated with dr...

WELLS CATHEDRAL - GERMAN

There has been a lot of new data discovered on Medieval Dutch cities in recent decades. This has provided new insights on the develeopment, topogra...

The Middle Minoan III period on Crete was initially identified and studied in detail at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans. Subsequent scholarly attention...

'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle ...

One can argue that academia has always existed in an information age; however, as the general public gains access to ever more advanced systems, it...

Representing analyses of a wide range of archaeological themes, Muge 150th: The 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Mesolithic Shellmiddens is di...

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of proces...