We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
I chose this book because it covers one of the most interesting and important periods of human prehistory, the origins and expansion…
The discovery of an unidentified and unexplained mummy, labelled Unknown Man E, in the Royal Cache tomb in Ancient Thebes, prompted the…
This is the book of the British Museum exhibition – a dazzling, kaleidoscopic view of the clay figurines of the earliest farmers…
And now for something completely different… the title might be a bit off-putting but the principal author, Chris Evans, is one of…
The Rape of Mesopotamia is not an exaggerated title, unfortunately. His book is an ‘autopsy of a cultural disaster’, writes Lawrence Rothfield,…
This is a book about those members of two English families who were long resident in the islands of St Kitts and…
The starting point of Stamper’s book is his reconstruction of the original Temple of Jupiter Optimus aximus on the Capitoline Hill in…
Abydos, one of the most ancient and venerable sites in Egypt, was the focus of the Cult of Osiris – the lord…
This book is one of those rare reference works that is affordable, scholarly, yet accessible. Profusely illustrated, this dictionary belongs on the…
Telling the time is basic to archaeology. It has never been straightforward. At first, there were just historical dates – dates recorded…
By Barry B. Powell Wiley-Blackwell, £50.00 ‘AOCCDRNIG TO RSCHEEARCH AT CMABRIGDE UINERVTISY, IT DEOSN’T MTTAER IN WAHT OREDR THE LTTEERS IN A…
Chris Turney, Macmillan, pb £9.99 Ice, Mud and Blood: lessons from climates past This article is an extract from the full article…