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This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories. -- .

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Treasure makes respectable people do dishonourable things

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Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog bodies should be displayed at all. -- .

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The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces of habitation at the site in the Middle Bronze Age

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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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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

A diligent historian and a superb writer THE TIMES

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.

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Ancient Egypt - we know so much about it, but there are still many unresolved questions. This volume explores and explains 70 of the most intriguing mysteries of this anicent civilization.

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The first proper translation of the Egyptian Pyramid Texts (The Book of the Dead) reveals their beauty as literature and their profound importance.

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Complete with new photography of the cleaned and conserved objects, showing off the stunning and intricate decoration, this book provides a fascinating account of the history and the discovery of this remarkable hoard.

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A complete photographic record, this book is an excursion to the monuments, ruins, statues and bas-reliefs of the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak. With the author's insights, these temples reveal the remains of a world devoted to an unimpeachable faith in the after-life, a faith whose conviction seems to have exalted its builders and artists.

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6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real members of the emperor's army.

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Covers a range of tombs, their decoration and burial customs.

(Paperback, Revised and updated edition)

Who are the Europeans Where did they come from This book brings together the evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history of Europe.