Archaeology

Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.

1001 years as a continuous settlement, 100 years as a modern city, Cairo in the 1970s is a complex metropolis.

The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture.

Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported.

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago.

This volume continues documenting the well-known excavations at Morgantina, a Greek town in central Sicily, in a presentation of the largest body of coins ever unearthed at an Italian site and published as a group.

Kommos, located on the south coast of Crete, is widely known for its important sanctuary of the Greek period for its earlier role as a major Minoan harbortown.

Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia.

One of the most powerful examples of human creativity and ingenuity is the ancient craft of pottery, with its delicate balance of form, function, and cultural expression.

Deep in the mist-shrouded hollows and ancient limestone bluffs of the Ozarks lies a hidden corridor — a fault-aligned seam where the Night Dwellers walk between worlds.

Lost Race of the Giants: Evidence, Memory and the Forgotten WorldFor millennia, legends of colossal beings have echoed across every continent—towering Nephilim, red-haired giants of the American mounds, Patagonian Titanes, and the ancient ones who walked the Ozark hollows.

Skunk Ape: Florida's Hidden GiantIn the steamy swamps and palmetto thickets of central Florida, something ancient and massive has never stopped walking.

This 12,000 word eBook short read tells the story of the Harbin cranium - one of the most important human fossil to be reported this century.

Ancient Catastrophes and Forgotten Civilizations takes readers on a gripping journey into humanity's deepest past, where myth and science converge to reveal a world shaped by fire, flood, and upheaval.

What if Masr in the Qur'an was never Egypt?

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeologyTwo strangers meet in a trapped elevator.

An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A diligent historian and a superb writer'THE TIMESA gripping new history of the making of England as a nation.

Tombs, Mummies and Burials: The Ancient World's Obsession With DeathBeneath the healing springs and Victorian spires of Eureka Springs lie echoes of humanity's oldest rituals—ancient tombs hidden in Ozark hollows, cave burials, and legends of the restless dead that mirror civilizations half a world away.

Lost Worlds: From Ancient Civilizations to Unexplained PhenomenaStep into the shadowed hollows and mist-veiled bluffs of the Ozarks, where the veil between past and present thins.

Este libro ha sido concebido como una obra colectiva y redactada por muchas manos, seleccionadas segun el ideario del proyecto que enfatiza la descentralizacion del discurso desde Santiago y convoca a personas especializadas y/o que hubiesen realizado arqueologia en distintas regiones del pais, incluidos aquellos territorios y maritorios tradicionalmente excluidos de los relatos convencionales, como pueden ser las islas alejadas del continente y la Antartica.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Dawn of Mankind, the story of how fragile primates became toolmakers, storytellers, farmers, and builders of civilization.

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Unlock the secrets of a timeless craft and delve deep into the fascinating world of forged chains.

"e;What if the most powerful men in history hid their true nature in plain sight, carved in stone for all to see, yet understood by almost no one?

The story of how we learned about the Universe, from the earliest prehistoric observations to the first telescopes.

Forgotten Titans: Giants, Creation Myths, and Lost Civilizations of Africa, Australia, and Oceania While the West obsesses over Nephilim, Titans, and Norse frost-giants, the colossal beings of the Global South have been largely forgotten.

For more than a century, textbooks, universities, encyclopedias, and institutions confidently declared that civilization began in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC.

In March 2021, the United States was beginning to emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ever since Darwin established our close relationship with living apes, anthropologists have sought fossil evidence for the so-called 'missing link', a transitional form between apes and humans.

The ability to produce fire on demand is one that humans share with no other species in the world.

For many years, palaeoanthropologists believed that human evolution was a straightforward progression from the ape-like australopithecines, to the more human but still small-brained Homo erectus, to the larger-brained Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Stones, Bones and Forgotten Voyagers: Giants, Ghosts, and Forgotten Civilizations of the Ozark PlateauBeneath the winding streets of Eureka Springs and the misty hollows of the Ozark Plateau lies a secret history far older—and stranger—than the Victorian cottages and healing springs that draw dreamers today.

More than two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water.

Dive into the greatest unsolved mystery of the ancient world.

From the Great Chain of Being to Out of Africa : Understanding the origins of modern humansHow do we as humans view ourselves?

The cave art of Lascaux, Altamira, and many other European Upper Palaeolithic sites is world-famous.

Echoes of the GiantsForgotten Titans, Wild Men, and Werewolf Bloodlines of EuropeFor centuries, the ancient forests and mist-shrouded mountains of Europe have hidden a terrifying truth.

The case of the Piltdown Man is the most notorious hoax in the history of palaeoanthropology.

In 2022, there were 577,160 deaths registered in England and Wales.

Imagine a multifunction tool that remained in use, more or less unchanged, not for decades, but one and a three-quarter million years.

Eugène Dubois believed that he had found the missing link, a view he would continue to hold until his death.

Deep in the mist-shrouded hollows and ancient limestone caves of the Ozarks, the Forest People are no longer hiding.

The ability to produce fire on demand is one that humans share with no other species in the world.

This is the story of the fall of an Empire and the rise of another.

What if the greatest secret of North American prehistory lies not in Egypt or Mesoamerica, but in the ancient hills of the Ozarks?

In Heft 2/2026 stehen Votivfiguren - ein fast vergessenes Brauchtum im Fokus.

What if everything you thought you knew about Earth and humanity's history was wrong?

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire.

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire.