Humanities

Hadrian's Wall [9781784974725]

Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretch…

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The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps [9781471166822]

The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discover…

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The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland [9781786781543]

This is the most comprehensive and thought-provoking field guide ever published to the iconic standing stones and prehistoric places of Britain and Ir…

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World Beneath the Sands, A: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology [9781509858705]

What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age …

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British Prehistoric Pottery [9780752419305]

Pottery is one of the most enduring artefacts from prehistory. It is of fundamental importance since, unlike stone, it can be precisely dated, display…

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Albania: An Archaeological Guide [9781780760698]

Albania is one of the youngest European states and the last country to emerge from the collapse of Ottoman Turkish power at the beginning of the 20th …

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Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites [9781789695571]

Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites presents the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary workshop …

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Blood, Faith and Iron: A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England [9781789690682]

The Ironbridge Gorge is an iconic industrial landscape, presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a national narrative o…

Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology [9781785708893]

Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incid…

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Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments [9780750996686]

Whether it is Hadrian's Wall, Kendal Castle, or the beautiful fells of the Lake District, for thousands of years people have found a certain elegance …

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Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners: The Revolutionary New Approach to Reading the Monuments [9780500051726]

An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no previo…

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Egyptologists' Notebooks [9780500295298]

For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and ar…

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Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation - The Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods [9781444779707]

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mys…

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Stonehenge Complete [9780500289662]

This newly revised and enlarged fourth edition of Christopher Chippindales prize-winning classic account brings the story of Stonehenge right up to da…

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The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads [9781789694062]

The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads unveils the ancient secrets of Xinjiang, western China, one of the least…

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The Rosetta Stone [9780714150215]

The Rosetta Stone contains a decree written three times in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphic that provided the key to the mysterious hieroglyphic script…

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'Blood Is Thicker Than Water' - Non-Royal Consanguineous Marriage in Ancient Egypt: An Exploration of Economic and Biological Outcomes [9781789695434]

Discussions on consanguineous marriage within Egyptology usually focus on brother-sister marriages recorded in census returns from Roman Egypt, or roy…

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'Down to Weymouth town by Ridgeway' [9780900341595]

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'Finished Labour of a Thousand Hands' [9780904220605]

The Combe Down Stone Quarries, which were the principal supplier of building stone for the great period of building in Bath during the 18th and 19th…

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'He being dead yet speaketh' [9781907586156]

The latest in a series on post-medieval burial produced by MOLA, this volume reports on three non-Church of England burial grounds in the London Bor…

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