We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
First Farmers: The origins of Agricultural Society Peter Bellwood Blackwells, PB £17.99 Why did Foragers become Farmers? Or in archaeological terms, why…
The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the decline of the West Adrian Murdoch Sutton, £18.99 Romulus Augustulus is very much the forgotten…
New Light on the Black Death: the cosmic connection Mike Baillie, Tempus £17.99 Everyone knows the Black Death of 1348 was…
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavated His Past Michael Coe, Thames and Hudson, £18.95 Michael Coe is one of the great figures of…
The Bankers of Puteoli: Finance, Trade and Industry in the Roman World David Jones Tempus, £19.99 In 1955, a hoard of over…
Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley, Thames and Hudson, £19.95 How powerful were women in Ancient Egypt? To judge by…
A rich feast of books crossed my desk this year. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to read most of them.…
In the way in which the National Museum Wales portrays Welsh identity, it stands out on the international scene as a beacon…
The most familiar image in the gallery of the mind’s eye is how Carola Hicks describes The Bayeux Tapestry in her book,…
Prehistoric people were not like us. Despite attempts by archaeologists to separate settlements from ceremonial sites, burial places from work places, and…
Animal bone reports can be dry stuff so it is good to see a spate of interesting books about the complex and…
This is a gripping read of conspiracies between dealers and major museums that have been going on for decades, but now –…