This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
In 1907 two great Welsh institutions were founded – the National Library and the National Museum. One year later a third was…
Produced to mark the 10th anniversary of the open-air Palaeolithic art of Portugal’s Côa Valley becoming a World Heritage site, this beautiful…
From the pyramids of Egypt, to St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, via the Parthenon, Petra, and Pompeii, Charles Freeman’s latest book covers…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
I have a great job: as Reviews Editor at the journal Antiquity, books on subjects ranging from early hominins to today’s car…
John Hale is an archaeologist at the University of Kentucky in Louisville with an impressive dossier of field experience at sites both…
Chronologically speaking, prehistory covers more than 95% of the time that humans have inhabited planet earth, although it is only in the…
Admittedly, this is not a book on archaeology. Yet, it is well worth reading and thought-provoking, not least for those interested in…
Visitors to the Wellcome Collection in London’s Euston Road cannot fail to be intrigued by the man behind it, the American-born pharmaceutical…
This is a novel set in the reign of Tutankhamun, but also about Howard Carter’s work in Egypt, his partnership with Lord…
And now for something completely different… the title might be a bit off-putting but the principal author, Chris Evans, is one of…