The most popular archaeology books of 2025

Archaeology books tell the story of the past through what people left behind. Lost cities, tombs, shipwrecks and everyday objects reveal how ancient societies lived, traded and believed. Read about famous excavations, new discoveries and the methods that let us date a pot or read a ruin. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Exodus
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Exodus

A. David Beaman

Published 2025

241 pages

Sitting on the Fence
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Sitting on the Fence

Gerrit Leendert Dusseldorp, Shumon T. Hussain, Gerrit Dusseldorp

Published 2025

222 pages

Ireland
Cover of Ireland

Ireland

Joseph Brady, Paul Ferguson

Published 2025

272 pages