Archaeology

"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.

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.

Fascinating, surprising and illuminating, join metal detecting cousins, Ellie and Lucie, on their journey into the search for hidden history in this story of nature, lost lives and long buried objects in this treasure trove of a book.

Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.

'The clearest and most detailed account of Stonehenge for a generation.

The most comprehensive work on labyrinths yet written.

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A remarkable new novel from the Wellcome Trust longlisted author.

An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.

Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.

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A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure.

A penetrating and lucid history of the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain.

Schlachtfeldarchaologie: In Heft 1/2026 blicken wir auf die Schlachtfelder verschiedener Epochen, zu denen archaologische Funde wie Waffen, Ausrustung oder menschliche Uberreste vorliegen.

La morada de dioses a la que este libro se refiere es el cuerpo humano, conglomerado proteico de materialidades con diverso origen.

The Great Isaiah Scroll lives up to its present-day name: with its over 7 meters, it preserves a complete text of one of the most extensive Hebrew Bible books.

Heft 4/2025 begibt sich auf Schatzsuche: es geht um Horte – Schatzfunde von der Steinzeit bis zu den Kelten.

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Combines anthropology s four subfields to explore what it means to be human Introduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives to understand human diversity and commonality.

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Reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que reflexionan sobre la relevancia de la arqueología como disciplina fundamental para enriquecer la comprensión de la historia colonial de México y América Latina.

LA CIVILIZACION MAS PODEROSA DE LA HISTORIA OCCIDENTALDurante mas de 500 anos, Roma fue la mas poderosa y avanzada civilizacion que el mundo habia conocido jamas.

Yuezhi Yatra: Kushan Empire's Foundations is a sweeping historical journey into the rise of one of the ancient world's most remarkable yet often overlooked empires.

Verheerende Naturkatastrophen haben auch die Menschen in Bayern immer wieder heimgesucht – insbesondere Hochwasser und Dürren, aber auch die Auswirkungen von schweren Erdbeben in den Nachbarländern.

En las ultimas decadas del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, las sociedades han empezado a identificar, reconocer, estudiar y valorar el legado de las generaciones anteriores, en relacion con el trabajo, la tecnica y la apropiacion del paisaje a traves del trabajo.