This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the signifi...

South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. ...

Byblos has played an extraordinary role in the history of the Mediterranean. From c. 3200 BC, it ...

This publication ¿ Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers ¿ is the first volume of the LIMES XXV¿s...

One hundred years ago, Howard Carter, working for Lord Carnarvon, made one of the most important ...

'Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There's not a trace of it left, and on...

At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f...

In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-120...

This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place...

This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five c...

This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or ...

The naos AM 107 of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden was made by order of king Amasis in the 6t...

Primäres Erkenntnismittel der Archäologie sind ihre Sammlungen und Archive an Objekten vergangene...

Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as...

Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his n...

This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brough...

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visu...

Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as we...

Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to th...

Anthropology's engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, 'dec...

Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed ...

The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP) is a multidisciplinary, ongoing research of footwear...

Religious spaces are often some of the most debated, contested, or otherwise scrutinized in the e...

During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of ...

This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his s...

Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed ...

Megalith building constitutes not only a past, but also a recent phenomenon, which is still pract...

Chariots, the racing cars of the ancient world, first appeared in Egypt about 1600 BC, and quickl...

Cultural heritage, which includes archaeology, is recognized as serving an increasingly important...

It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered bir...

Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vas...

A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse ...

This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as 'Lamak', a fascinating and u...

Henk Kars was appointed as first Chair of Archaeometry in The Netherlands in 1994. From 2002 he w...

Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij sl...

In this second part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann (the famous 19th cent...

La publication des actes du colloque « Mégalithismes et monumentalismes funéraires : passé, prése...

In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers...

In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch währ...

The Kiel Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes' has conducted research on socio-enviro...

'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and ...

In the Caribbean region, landscape change is part of the region's history. The Caribbean exemplif...

De geschiedschrijving van de zogenaamd Spaanse periode van de Benedenwindse eilanden Curaçao, Aru...

'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Res...

The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition i...

Throughout history, climate change has been an important driving force behind human behaviour. Th...

This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately pla...

This book contains a selection of nineteen articles published by K.R. Veenhof, focusing on his ma...