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The most complete account of the classical city of Antioch, this study incorporates the findings of the excavations of 1932-1939. Dr. Downey, who participated in the excavations, tells the story of the rise and fall of Antioch, with nineteen excursuses, closely integrated with the text, affording a rich store of data on travel books, maps, and info

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This compact book, packed with glorious colour photography joins a series on the stand out holdings of the British Museum. It describes the discovery, conservation and analysis of the corpse of Lindow Man, Britain's best preserved bog body, dating to the late Iron Age.

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This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to answer some of Egyptology's biggest questions.

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By looking at both the material evidence produced by archaeological excavation and the written sources, Allen sought to integrate both sorts of evidence to produce an eclectic history that was neither social nor political nor economic in its primary emphasis, but combined all three.

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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe This title reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language.

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An accessible introduction to the Indus, an extraordinary and tantalizing lost ancient civilization.

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Paperback edition of the best-selling account of the archaeology of the First World War. Compelling case studies revealing the lives of individual soldiers. Graphic insights into the reality of trench warfare

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More than 100 large-format photographs depict extraordinary sites in South and Central American Mexico and the Caribbean

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New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought

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A comprehensive account of the Irish Iron Age, drawing upon recent archaeological evidence which discusses advances that took place in travel and transport and religious beliefs. The text examines how the impressions of early Celtic Ireland compare with real evidence.

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In the recent past, a working knowledge of the Maya script has been confined to epigraphers, art historians and other specialists. This is a compact, portable guide to enable students, tourists and armchair travellers to read and understand commonly encountered Classic Maya texts.

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A study of the megaliths, addressing questions such as who built them, how they were transported and erected, and what their purpose was. It covers the best known sites - Avebury, Stonehenge, Carnac and Knowth - as well as less famous examples in Scandinavia, Malta, Egypt and Spain.

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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

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A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation.

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Presents the history of the site of Tell el-Amarna from its foundation by the pharaoh Akhenaten in c 1344 bc to its abandonment just 16 or 17 years later, a few years after his death. This title includes nine chapters that cover the king's choice of the site and its development, and the layout of the city and its buildings.

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A fully illustrated survey of all Egypts temples, covering the secret rites and architectural wonders of these powerful and mysterious monuments from early pharaonic times to the Roman period.

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Presents an account of the Valley of the Kings, famous throughout the world as the burial place of the great New Kingdom pharaohs. This title brings together the art, archaeology and history to create both a sourcebook and guide for tourists, scholars, students and armchair travellers.

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An exploration of one of England's great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington.

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From Stonehenge to Newgrange, the richest array of megalithic monuments in Europe is found in Great Britain and Ireland. The number and sheer diversity of these structures is astonishing. This title guides you around these monuments. It is intended for travellers, tourists and students.