How does the archaeological record reflect the vital role horses played in the development of civilisation?…
Rome’s decline, Celtic brawls, and China’s walls Decline and Fall Edward Gibbon wrote an epic six-volume History of the Decline and Fall…
Basking in the eastern Mediterranean sun, Cyprus – legendary birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis – boasts an astonishing wealth of archaeological treasures,…
All roads seem to lead to Rome. I once lived here for seven years and now, by way of another capital, Philadelphia,…
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…
John Bintliff Wiley-Blackwell, £29.00 ISBN 978-1405154192 John Bintliff, a lecturer and archaeologist, has produced a panoramic labour of love that illuminates the…
David Stuttard and Sam Moorhead The British Museum, £9.99 ISBN 978-0714122748 Whatever you think about the story of Antony, Cleopatra, and the…
This magnificent alabaster sarcophagus comes from the tomb of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Seti I. It was discovered in 1817 by Giovanni…
Due to celebrate the 100th anniversary of moving to its current location next year, Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has…
On an overland ride from England to Ceylon in 1839, Austen Henry Layard became fascinated by the newly emerging archaeology of Mesopotomia…