The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its first ruler.…
Eds Rick J Schulting and Linda Fibiger Oxford University Press, £80.00 ISBN 978-0199573066 ‘Nasty, brutish, and short.’ Thomas Hobbes was not…
Garry J Shaw Thames & Hudson, £24.95 ISBN 978-0500051740 Garry Shaw’s guide to ancient Egyptian kingship is beautifully illustrated with colour photographs of…
Ian Hodder Wiley-Blackwell, £19.99 ISBN 978-0470672129 Are artefacts a backdrop to society, props used to reconstruct lost ways of life, or…
Do the outlines of hands in Spain’s El Castillo cave belong to Homo sapiens or to their earlier Neanderthal cousins?…
The Diablo Pyramid, in Guatemala, covers an earlier temple whose intricately decorated façade was carefully packed to preserve its huge stucco masks.…