Archaeology

Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt - the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the p...

This book presents a concise account of the lives and times of some of the more significant occupants of the Egyptian throne, from the unification ...

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of ...

The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North Afri...

Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought over by the first slaves and maintained in various forms ever since. In Odudu...

Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought over by the first slaves and maintained in various forms ever since. In Odudu...

This study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ''''polite'''' houses from medieval to contemporary times....

What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them egg-shaped, or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do wi...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge ...

From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, ofte...

This book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anurad...