Archaeology by period / region

Of immense significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Holy Land has been attracting visitors since the fifth century BC.

Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies.

Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies.

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure.

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure.

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fifth century BC, which is now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

We live in a world obsessed by luxury.

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization.

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization.

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts.

Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom?

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, transcending political and language barriers that can hinder understanding.

This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea.

The World of the 'Fullo' takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy.

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king.

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king.

In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons.

The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age.

The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age.

The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world.

The Emergent Past approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an assemblage - a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants, techniques, technologies, forces, and ideas.

Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery.

Blood of the Provinces is the first fully comprehensive study of the largest part of the Roman army, the auxilia.

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies.

The Neolithic of the Near East is a period of human development which saw fundamental changes in the nature of human society.

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow.

Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow.

Why is it that in some places around the world communities live in villages, while elsewhere people live in isolated houses scattered across the landscape?

Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing.

Festivals were the heartbeat of Greek and Roman society and fulfilled significant roles in its social and political organization and within its institutions.

Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings - whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric Europe.

In Hadrian's Wall: A Life, Richard Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of this world-famous ancient monument.

While the study of networks has grown exponentially in the past decade and is now having an impact on how archaeologists study ancient societies, its emergence in the field has been dislocated.

Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze Age.

In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past.

This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD.

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century.

This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography.

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states.

Why did Rome fall?

This selection of essays by key names in the field of ancient economies in the 'Hellenistic' age (c.

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces.

The city of Pompeii has had an enormous impact on Western imaginations since its rediscovery under the ashes of the volcano that destroyed it in 79 CE.

The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures.

Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC.

In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD.

This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies.

Who were the Druids?

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West.