Peking Man was one of the first ‘men’ to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only recently being properly dated
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Moundbuilders
The Moundbuilders George R. Milner, Thames and Hudson, £28.00 If you go to America, and land on the East Coast, then cross over the Appalachian Mountains, you come down into the huge valley plain of the River Mississippi with its tributaries, the Ohio, the Illinois and the Tennessee rivers. This huge area, nearly 1000 miles […]
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt
Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor Wolfram Grajetzki, Gerald Duckworth & Co., £14.99 Wolfram Grajetzki’s comprehensive little book aims to document the burial customs of Ancient Egypt across five millennia. He opens with a look at the graves of the early Egyptian farmers who lived and died some seven […]
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: a Compendium Ed. Elizabeth Peters, Constable & Robinson, £19.99 This is a book that is both charming and dangerous. Elizabeth Peters might be described as an American version of Agatha Christie, and her equivalent of Hercule Poirot is Amelia Peabody, a Victorian feminist/archaeologist/ detective, the chronicles of whose doings are extremely popular […]
Dragon Bone Hill
In 1921, the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson and his palaeontological assistant Otto Zdansky, an Austrian, discovered some intriguing fossil bones in a complex of Pleistocene-era caves near Peking. Dragon Bone Hill is the English translation of the local Chinese name (Longgushan) of the caves that are internationally known as Zhoukoudian. A galaxy of international scientists […]
Pompeii, Houses & Lifestyles
A look at the interiors of Pompeian houses
Roaring Creek, Belize
Current excavations and survey in the Roaring Creek valley in Belize bring to life an ancient Maya community
Pompeii, AD 79 – Vesuvius Explodes
Investigating the devestating eruption of Mount Versuvius that snubbed out all life in Pompeii
Pompeii Before the Romans
Was Pompeii an Etruscan planned city? Reading University’s excavations of the House of Amarantus
Pompeii, House of the Vestals
The revelations of Bradford University’s excavations of the city at the time of the Caesars, with a focus on architecture, sanitation and money
Pompeii, City of Extremes – or not
Is an alternate version of the Pompeii story a possibility?
Pompeii, Visitors Plan
Map of the ancient town
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