Archaeology by period / region

Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend?

For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time.

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC.

HOMO BRITANNICUS tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man s very first footsteps to the present day.

'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.

Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy.

The Indo-European dispersal inalterably shaped the Eurasian linguistic landscape.

Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system.

Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete.

This book uses globalisation theories to draw out the complex connections between diverse peoples around the Mediterranean.

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC.

The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe.

This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the 700-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities.