We, as modern humans, tend to look at ancient art with a 21st-century mindset. It is all too easy to stare (in…
Andrew Robinson Thames & Hudson, £8.95 Half a millennium before Homer described ‘Crete, set in the wine-dark sea’, its inhabitants used a…
Frederick N Bohrer Reaktion Books Ltd, £17.95 Before photography, archaeologists hired ‘tracers’ to copy inscriptions and record finds by hand. Howard Carter…
He founded the Oriental Institute in Chicago, was the first American to achieve a doctorate in Egyptology, and his book is an…
Colin McEcedy Allen Lane, £25.00 Alexandria. Athens. Babylon. Carthage. Constantinople. Jerusalem. Colin McEvedy’s contents page reads like a roll-call of some of…
Nick Thomson Shire Books, £6.99 Corrugated iron may not be seen as a glamorous building material today, but it was once so…
Chris Webber Pen and Sword, £25.00 Claiming descent from Thrax, son of the war god Ares, the Thracians were feared throughout the…
Studies of the past tend to focus on the great sweeps of history, on the elite, and on their monumental buildings. But…
The main challenge of studying pre-Christian Scandinavia is that written sources describing the period mainly post-date the region’s official conversion by centuries.…
Prompted by a session on the subject at an annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, the editors, working on the…
To many archaeologists, Northern European bogs mean votive offerings of Iron Age weapons. This book focuses on four sites renowned for their…
In this beautifully illustrated new compendium of ancient Greek material culture, Richard Neer spans 2,350 years of art history from the Bronze…
In 1839, the invention of the daguerreotype offered explorers a new way to document their travels, and within a year photographic pioneers…