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The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun - The King - The Treasure - The Dynasty

Who was Tutankhamun? Prom the opulence and riches of the royal court at Thebes, to the cult of the god Amun and the great heresy of Akhen...

The legacy of Saint Stephen

Az elsősorban nem magyar olvasóknak szóló kötet első királyunk államalkotó tevékenységének azokat az elemeit emeli ki, amelyek révén tört...

Signs - Letters - Alphabets - Thirty-Thousand Years of the Alphabet

A könyv logikai láncolatra fűzve és egyértelmű írásmaradványokkal bizonyítja, hogy a geometrikus jelekből álló ABC már 30.000 évvel ezelő...

The Splendid and the Vile - Churchill, Family and Defiance during the Bombing of London

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

Our words from the past

“And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech”. (Genesis I.11.1) Where did this language develop? What kind of language...

The Living Language of the Stone Age - The ""nostratic"" language of prehistoric times

Eurázsia nyelvei egyaránt őrzik a "nosztratikus"-nak nevezett kőkorszaki nyelv töredékeit. A könyv mottója: "A KŐKOR SZAVA KÉP". A kőkor...

Killers of the Flower Moon

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered be...

The Escape Artist

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwi...

The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under el...

The Escape Artist

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under el...

Signs - Letters - Alphabets

A könyv logikai láncolatra fűzve és egyértelmű írásmaradványokkal bizonyítja, hogy a geometrikus jelekből álló ABC már 30.000 évvel ezelő...

The Splendid and the Vile

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and...

Der Kaukasus zwischen Osteuropa und Vorderem Orient in der Bronze- und Eisenzeit: Dialog der Kulturen, Kultur des Dialoges - Internationale Fachtagung für die Archäologie des Kaukasus und Humboldt-Kolleg (5.-8. Oktober 2015, Sankt Petersburg)

Der Kaukasus war immer eine wichtige Brücke zwischen den Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, der eurasischen Steppenzone und Europas. Seit dem...

Wasser für Carnuntum - Versorgung, Entsorgung, Badekultur im Römischen Reich und in der Stadt an der Donau. BAND II: Carnuntum

Im Laufe der Ausgrabungen zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert (also heute) wurden im einstigen Legionslager Carnuntum mehrere öffentlich...

Fliegende Hirsche und Sonnengötter / Flying Deer and Sun Gods - Prähistorische Gesellschaften in Felsbildern Zentralasiens / Prehistoric Societies in Central Asian Rock Art

Glaubensvorstellungen und Lebensordnungen Ein Schwarm Hirsche fliegt eng aneinander geschmiegt dem Himmel zu, eine Herde Kamele mit ihrem...

Stone Age Borderland Experience: - Neolithic and Late Mesolithic Parallel Societies in the North European Plain

These conference proceedings contain a foreword by the editors, 26 papers of an international conference at Niedersächsisches Landesmuseu...

Time and Materiality - Periodization and Regional Chronologies at the Transition from Bronze to Iron Age in Eurasia [1200-600 B.C.E.].

Der Tagungsband zur gleichnamigen 1. Internationalen Tagung vom 19.-21.03.2018 an der FU Berlin enthält ein Vorwort, eine theoretische Ei...

The Canadian Residential School System and Cultural Genocide

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 98.3%, University of Waterloo, language: Englis...

Wege zur frühen Schrift: Niltal und Zweistromland - Die Anfänge der Kulturtechnik Schreiben im 4. und frühen 3. Jt. v.Chr.

Schrift scheint allgegenwärtig. Mitunter wird sie als ein definierendes Merkmal von "Zivilisation" gepriesen, in der Vergangenheit wie in...

Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty - Geography and Chronology of Production

The Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period were the heyday for scarab seals with names in Ancient Egypt. During this time...

The Egyptian Amduat - The Book of the Hidden Chamber

In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insig...

From the Hunt to the Cave - Neanderthal Subsistence at K¿lna Cave during the Middle Palaeolithic Taubachian Phase: Analyses of the Faunal Remains from Level 11

Kulna is one of the largest cave sites in eastern Europe and contains evidence of repeated occupations by Neanderthals and modern humans....

Beyond Urnfields - New Perspectives on Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Funerary Practices in Northwest Europe

BEYOND URNFIELDS presents the results of an international network project on Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age urnfields from northwest ...

Zwischen Kontinenten und Jahrtausenden - Festschrift für Andreas Müller-Karpe zum 65. Geburtstag

Der Band enthält Vorwort, Grußwort des Landesarchäologen, Schriftenverzeichnis des Jubilars und 29 Aufsätze. Die Beiträge behandeln ein B...

The Persians

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and ...

A Short History of Humanity - How Migration Made Us Who We Are

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... In this eye-opening bo...

Ötzi, the Iceman - The Full Facts at a Glance

Old and exhausted, with an arrowhead lodged in his shoulder - this is how the Iceman met his death 5,300 years ago. Since the discovery o...

Stonehenge - Sighting the Sun

This beautifully illustrated book shines new light on this most famous of ancient monuments, and is the first in-depth study of archaeolo...

Metropoleis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt to Septimius Severus

This is the first monograph of metropoleis in Egypt from the Hellenistic age until high Empire. Metropoleis were capital units of nomes o...

The Mystery of the Danube Civilisation - The discovery of Europe's oldest civilisation

Over the last few years, archaeologists have been finding more and more evidence for the existence of a civilisation on the Balkan penins...

Lithic technology - making and using stone tools

Frontmatter -- Introduction / SWANSON, EARL ¿. -- PART ONE: Lithic Technology and Taxonomy -- Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and ...

In the Land of Ninkasi - A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia

In the Land of Ninkasi tells the story of the world's first great beer culture. In this authoritative but light-hearted account, archaeol...

Xantener Berichte Band 41 - Zwischen Töpfer und Verbraucher / Between Potter and Consumer

Die Themen des internationalen Kolloquiums, das vom 27.-29. März 2019 im LVR-RömerMuseum stattfand, fächern ein breites Spektrum aktuelle...

Roman Mythology - Tales From the Roman Pantheon

ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Why did the Roman Empire fall? The theories are numerous, including the rise of Islam, lead in the drinking water, inflat...

Hallstatt 7000

Seit 7.000 Jahren wird in Hallstatt Salz abgebaut. 7.000 Jahre za¿hlt das a¿lteste Unternehmen der Welt. Es befindet sich in Hallstatt. E...

Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800

¿Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800¿ is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the ...

Rondels revisited - Recent research on Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe 5000-4500 cal. B.C.

Circular enclosures [Kreisgrabenanlagen] or rondels have raised the interest of archeologists for more than a century. During the past tw...

Die mittelneolithische Kreisgrabenanlage von Ippesheim, Kreis Neustadt/Aisch-Bad Windsheim

This volume is the first final publication of the research projects on Neolithic circular enclosures at FU Berlin. The excavation of the ...

Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet - Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region

The volume contains seven papers covering the prospection, documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of archaeological fea...

Carthage

This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and tra...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland - A New History

In rich and telling detail, Alistair Moffat relates the remarkable story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The north is being ren...

Utopia - The Influential Classic

What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. U...

Stone Circles - A Field Guide

The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland

Age of Wolf and Wind - Voyages through the Viking World

Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthrough...

Hommes, terroir et territoires - Le Paléolithique en Bourgogne méridionale

La Bourgogne méridionale, située entre Dijon et Lyon, compte parmi les régions paléolithiques les plus importantes de France depuis les t...

The Good Book of Human Nature - An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated -or excoriated,as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible f...

Welt-kult-ur-sprung - World origin of culture

Eiszeitjäger schufen vor 40 000 Jahren in den Höhlen des Ach- und Lonetals, den Nebentälern der Donau westlich und östlich von Ulm, die e...

Sapiens (10 Year Anniversary Edition) - A Brief History of Humankind

A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensation INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARI What mak...

A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology - Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach

This book walks you through the process from planning to implementation to assessment, with case studies and examples in each chapter. Le...

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRI...

Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity - An Anthropology of Science

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others...

The Middle Helladic Pottery

Educating the Tudors

Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships.

Origins of the European Economy - Communications and Commerce A.D. 300-900

A comprehensive analysis of economic transition between the later Roman empire and Charlemagne's reigne.

Mapping and Historical Archaeology - Beyond (Within, Through) the Grid

This book explores the intersections of mapping and historical archaeology and the ways in which mapping can generate new archaeological ...

Niedergermanischer Limes / Neder-Germaanse Limes / Lower German Limes - TOP 100 Funde / Vondsten / Finds

Außergewöhnliche Funde vom nassen Limes Der Niedergermanische Limes reichte vom Vinxtbach bei Bad Breisig (Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland) ...

Pernil Alto - An agricultural village of the Middle Archaic period in Southern Peru

As of yet, little is known about the emergence of agriculture in the Central Andes. The results of the investigations of the Middle Archa...

Negotiating Migrations - The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility

"This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest...

The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE)....

Law in Light - Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana

"Brilliantly exploring spiritual terrains and orders, Lauren Coyle Rosen, in conjunction with Akan keepers of sacred knowledge, soul-craf...