Archaeology

The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal.

The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'.

The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders.

'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures.

The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures.

Focusing on the period from September 1964, when Senor Galo Lasso Plaza assumed the UN mediatory role, to the coup d'etat and the Turkish invasion ten years later, Cyprus Before 1974 seeks to unpick the internal conflicts which led to the failure of the peace process in Cyprus.

Focusing on the period from September 1964, when Senor Galo Lasso Plaza assumed the UN mediatory role, to the coup d'etat and the Turkish invasion ten years later, Cyprus Before 1974 seeks to unpick the internal conflicts which led to the failure of the peace process in Cyprus.

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire.

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire.

Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country's forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state.

Yugoslavia and Political Assassinations is the first book in English to analyse how and why the Yugoslav State Security Service carried out multiple targeted assassinations, over the country's forty-six years of existence, under the pretext of protecting the Yugoslav communist party-state.

Ten years after the first volume, this book highlights the important contribution Raman spectroscopy makes as a non-destructive method for characterising the chemical composition of objects with archaeological and historical importance.

Ten years after the first volume, this book highlights the important contribution Raman spectroscopy makes as a non-destructive method for characterising the chemical composition of objects with archaeological and historical importance.

An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their development and sophistication.

New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.

A new view of Sweden's relations with the world beyond its borders, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia.

Miniaturisation is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually but not always for purposes different to those of the larger original object.

A Contemporary Archaeology of London's Mega Events explores the traces of London's most significant modern 'mega events'.

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging.

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon.

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings.

Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing.

How does heritage emerge, change, stagnate, disappear and/or revive over time?

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco documents and interprets the physical remains and afterlives of the Chaco War (1932-35) - known as South America's first 'modern' armed conflict - in what is now present-day Paraguay.

How was the Roman Empire invoked in Brexit Britain and in Donald Trump's United States of America, and to what purpose?

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices.

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide.

Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea.

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.

Cities today are paradoxical.

Cities today are paradoxical.

Building the Wall is a gripping political thriller from Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy award nominee.

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer' EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire.

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer' EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire.

A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century.

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9.

In 13th century, the Szeklers were granted a territory (Terra Sirulorum) on the eastern border of the kingdom of Hungary.

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus.

The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East.

Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East.