The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and the only one that has withstood the test of time. For centuries peop...

When alchemy emerged in Roman Egypt, early adepts knew their wisdom came from the Egyptian temples. Yet these deep roots in ancient Egypt have rema...

Preface; Introduction; Hávamál; Commentary; Bibliography and Abbreviations.

Since the early 20th century the more than 130 hamlets or farms in Scandinavia and Orkney known by the name Husaby, Huseby, Husby, Husebø etc. have...

The god Set (aka Seth) has been much of a puzzle to Egyptologists. If we go with the attitude of later Egyptians, we find Set blamed for every misf...

Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North Americ...

For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the historical sources of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscripts are now p...

Text in English and French. Qumran Cave 11Q was discovered by Bedouin in 1956. In the cave, remains of around 30 Dead Sea Scrolls were found, a few...

The Kongemose culture has for many years lived in the shadow of the more well-known Ertebølle and the Maglemose cultures. This is not, in any way, ...

Although Plutarch did not intend his Lives as a historical record, they sometimes furnish the best account we have of events in classical Greece. I...

Investigating records of early travellers and fragments of tomb paintings in museums and other collections, Lost Ramessid and Post-Ramessid Private...

An essay on the finds from sites in the al-Hasa region of Saudi Arabia. The presentation is organised chronologically, from the 3rd millennium to t...

As part of the TAVO-project in the Petra area conducted by H.G. Gebel in 1984, the Natufian site of Sunakh is here presented with a technological a...

In 1885, a large hypogeum was discovered at the Saint-E'tienne Compound, the domain acquired only two and a half years before by the Dominicans on ...

The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...

Pots for the Living / Pots for the Dead

A presentation of the various indigenous coin issues that circulated in Eastern Arabia during the pre-Islamic era as attested in five private colle...

This volume celebrates the centenary of Classical Archaeology as a University discipline in Denmark by presenting nineteen articles on classical ar...

The latest volume of Acta Hyperborea, which appeared in the late fall of 2003, includes articles, which are the revised versions of papers presente...

This anthropological and historical study delves into the San Cristobel Ranch in the archaeology-rich Galisteo Basin that has seen centuries of hum...

From the time when Alexander the Great conquered the world and almost until the Romans lost theirs, a small village in Thy survived all sorts of ch...

The Stone Age occupations of Qeqertarsuup Tunua (Disko Bugt) are among the most thoroughly surveyed and best known in Greenland. This volume presen...

Supplement to Pre-Islamic Coinage

This book provides a modern, scholary edition of the runic inscriptions, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon, discovered in the Isle of Man. All are carv...

A user-friendly guide to the identification and classification of the many types of pottery created by prehistoric peoples of the Southwest.

Upon this Foundation. - The 'Ubaid Reconsidered

Providing a comparative treatment of four cities of the eastern Roman empire in the period 50 BC-AD 250 -- Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athen...

Reflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that 'in every expedient for taking fish they are vas...

Addressing topics of production and distribution, iconography, regional studies, and museum collections, this volume sheds new and important light ...

The European coastal areas and the lands around the rivers had great importance for the local populations but also for the Vikings, who settled in ...

The complete wall decorations of 3 Theban tombs (No. 77, No. 175 and No. 249) are here published for the first time. The graves at Thebes in Egypt,...

The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...