Archaeology

The Wars of the Roses came to a bloody climax at the Battle of Bosworth on 22 August 1485. In a few hours, on a stretch of otherwise unremarkable f...

From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the...

British Bronze Age artefacts made from copper, bronze, gold, flint, jet and shale are renowned throughout Europe for their beauty and exquisite cra...

Francis Pryor regular contributor on Channel 4s Time Team and the man behind the Britain BC and Britain AD television series maintains that early...

Andrew Tibbs, the man behind the popular @RomanScotland account, brings together an overview of the history and archaeology of this famous monumen...

This publication presents the results of archaeological investigations by Pre-Construct Archaeology at Laurel Farm to the south-east of Norfolk. ...

This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural r...

Pterosauriërs is a popular scientific book about pterosaurs: flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The book answers many questions ...

The first of four books on excavations in the Whitefriars area of Canterbury, this report describes the development of the Augustinian friary from ...

The fifth part of the Corinth volume dedicated to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore publishes the large-scale terracotta sculpture found in the san...

The Balboura Survey, conducted between 1985 and 1994, investigated the settlement history of a small district in the ancient region of Kabalia in...

Every so often a remarkable discovery hits the headlines often an account of treasure hunters striking lucky after years of searching the land, or...

It is time for a new book about bog bodies: the number of known bodies is growing. Lindow Man, the famous 'Pete Marsh' discovered in Cheshire in th...

The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the anci...

Following his account of Irish origins as evidenced by archaeology, genetics and linguistics, J. P. Mallory returns to the subject to interrogate w...

Experimental Archaeology is a volume which aims to bridge the gap in archaeology between empirical testing and humanistic approaches to understandi...

The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularl...

The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778...