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Origins of the Sphinx: Celestial Guardian of Pre-Pharaonic Civilization by Robert M. Schoch 9781620555255
RRP: £18.99£16.05In this provocative collaboration from two Egyptology outsiders, Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., and Robert Bauval combine their decades of research to show how the Sphinx is thousands of years older than the conventional Egyptological timeline and was built by... -
Prehistoric Flintwork by Chris Butler 9780752433400
RRP: £30.00£22.43Flint was a vitally important resource for prehistoric societies who put it to a diverse range of uses. Chris Butler has created a concise guide to recognising and categorising British prehistoric flintwork. The author begins by looking at the different... -
Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History by Francis Pryor
RRP: £12.99£8.32As in 'Britain B.C.' and 'Britain A.D.' (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages'... -
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £14.99£11.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the... -
Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook by Alison E. Cooley 9780415666800
RRP: £36.99£32.93The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows... -
Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations: Weaving Together Society by Anne Porter 9780521764438
RRP: £65.00£58.56In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of... -
The Galloway Hoard: Viking-Age Treasure by Martin Goldberg 9781910682401
RRP: £12.99£11.01In 2017 an intense fundraising campaign ensured that what came to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Since then work has been ongoing to preserve and understand it. Over 5kg of silver bullion, many unique and enigmatic gold... -
Britons and Anglo-Saxons: Lincolnshire AD 400-650 by Caitlin Green 9780902668263
RRP: £19.98£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902668263Author Caitlin GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint History of Lincolnshire CommitteePublisher History of Lincolnshire... -
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier
RRP: £23.49£16.61It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the boy-king's story... -
The Antonine Wall by David Breeze
RRP: £14.99£10.77As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140... -
King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight... -
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £30.00£21.95Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara Desert, stretching across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. This book is about the people who lived around the edges of the Desert and the different ways in which they responded to its... -
The Sword in the Age of Chivalry by Ewart Oakeshott
RRP: £24.99£20.90A comprehensive history and typology of the European knightly sword from c.1050 to c.1550, that draws on evidence from literature and art as well as from archaeology. The resplendent image of the medieval knight is symbolised by his sword, a lethal... -
Rome in the Ninth Century: A History in Art by John Osborne 9781009415378
RRP: £85.00£77.00Intended as a sequel to Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020), this survey of the material culture of the city of Rome spans the period from the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the nadir of the fortunes of the Roman Church a century... -
Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches by Chantal Conneller
RRP: £19.99£15.02The general perception of the archaeology of the Mesolithic in Britain and Ireland is that the period is somewhat impoverished. Often assumed to have an exceptionally limited range of evidence, the period is also perceived as a theoretical backwater,... -
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.60An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the... -
Ancient Egypt: An Introduction by Salima Ikram
RRP: £38.99£33.05This book provides an introduction to one of the greatest civilizations of all time - ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egyptian belief systems as well as its subsequent political development, it... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: £14.99£10.95Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this,... -
Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt by Salima Ikram 9789774166969
£23.73The invention of mummification enabled the ancient Egyptians to preserve the bodies not only of humans but also of animals, so that they could live forever. Mummified animals are of four different types: food offerings, pets, sacred animals, and votive... -
When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Tolba Volcano by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: £24.00£16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346353Author Donald R. ProtheroFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Stargate Conspiracy: Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial contact, military intelligence and the mysteries of ancient Egypt by Lynn Picknett
RRP: £12.99£8.60Recent exciting discoveries by independent researchers have dramatically challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt, raising profound questions about our past. STARGATE CONSPIRACY exposes the most insidious & dangerous plan of our times. It involves... -
The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology by Helena Hamerow
£43.47Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of physical evidence--settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has... -
Dim Croeso '69 - Gwrthsefyll yr Arwisgo by Arwel Vittle
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617103Author Arwel VittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Hadrian's Wall: Creating Division by Matthew Symonds
RRP: £19.99£16.54Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation... -
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction by Pat Shipman
RRP: £19.95£16.12A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe-descendants of a much earlier migration of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology by Barry Cunliffe
£41.09Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology brings together 35 authors - all specialists in their own... -
Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image by Smiles 9781405111508
RRP: £40.95£35.89Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the... -
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £25.00£16.53'Beautifully written, sumptuously illustrated, constantly fascinating' The TimesOn 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: 'Yes, yes,... -
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241734Author Hugh RafflesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.98'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present by Pat Thane
RRP: £25.99£23.61How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were... -
The Inca: Lost Civilizations by Kevin Lane 9781789145465
RRP: £18.00£12.96From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle... -
Grettir's Saga by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: £10.99£7.77'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.' A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of... -
The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape by Melanie Jonasch 9781789253566
£55.95The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the... -
Doggerland: Lost World under the North Sea by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz
RRP: £35.00£33.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261134Author Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe by Chris Fowler 9780198832492
£49.32The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages... -
Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham
RRP: £12.99£8.60First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba,... -
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology by Timothy Darvill
RRP: £16.49£11.95The most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. Over 4,000 entries cover the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, in lectures, and on television. Topics covered include artefacts,... -
The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills by Jim Grant 9780415526883
RRP: £37.99£34.98This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students... -
Drawing Somerset's Past: An Illustrated Journey through History by Time Team Artist Victor Ambrus and Steve Minnitt by Victor Ambrus 9780750967860
RRP: £17.99£14.04This book tells the story of Somerset's archaeology and history, from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Generously illustrated with drawings by the internationally renowned artist Victor Ambrus, best known for his appearances on Channel 4's...