We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
Peter S Wells Princeton University Press, £24.95 ISBN 978-0691143385 As a professor of anthropology, Peter Wells’ interest in neuroscience and cognitive psychology…
Margaret Maitland British Museum Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714119984 This small book takes on a huge subject: the role of the pharaoh as…
Ed. Morris L Bierbrier Egypt Exploration Society, £35 The Egypt Exploration Society has updated their compendium of Egyptologists after a gap of…
By Melissa A Vogel University Press of Florida, £64.50 ISBN 978-0813037967 This is the first English-language work on the Casma, a…
By Claire Holleran Oxford University Press, £65.00 ISBN 978-0199698219 Researching for her PhD thesis, Holleran soon identified a gap in the…
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…
David Stuttard British Museum Press, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714122724 They had come to the hilltop to make sacrifice. Now, on this day of…
Francesco Menotti Oxford University Press, £95.00 ISBN 978-0199571017 Wetland archaeology, Menotti writes, is a widely practised but relatively unknown subdiscipline – he…
Barbara Watterson Amberley, £18.99 ISBN 978-1445604947 This authoritative, accessible book by a freelance lecturer in Egyptology provides a comprehensive and compelling introduction…
Ed. Aleksander Pluskowski Oxbow, £48.00 ISBN 978-1842174449 Animals have been interred with humans in prehistoric and historic societies worldwide. This collection of…