Archaeology

An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in dee...

An intimate look at the true story of the funerary business of a Theban mortuary priest 2800 years ago as unearthed by an ancient papyrus Petebas...

A richly illustrated account of the rulers of the first three dynasties of the ancient Egyptian civilization, written by renowned Egyptologist Aida...

The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northw...

In this book, Bob Becking provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the origins, lives, and eventual fate of the Yehudites, or Judeans, a...

This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history and presents the subject on the basis of an enormous amount of source...

This book presents guidance, theory, methodologies, and case studies for analyzing tree rings to accurately date and interpret historic buildings a...

How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories...

This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, ...

The use of chemistry in archaeology can help archaeologists answer questions about the nature and origin of the many organic and inorganic finds re...

When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that...

Includes 397 b/w figures and 31 tables. Humayma, ancient Hawara, was the only significant settlement in the Hisma, the desert between Petra and Aqa...

In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora b...