The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah
Alfred Edersheim
Published 1883
740 pages
Free archaeology books
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 you can read in full for free.
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The Mummy
Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Published 1893
450 pages
The renewal of pagan antiquity
Aby Warburg
Published 1999
859 pages
Life in Ancient Egypt
Adolf Erman, Helen Mary Beloe Tirard
Published 1894
624 pages
History, fiction or science? Chronology
A.T. Fomenko
Published 2003
527 pages
The golden deer of Eurasia ; perspectives on the steppe nomads of the ancient world
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
2000 · 2006 edition
243 pages
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
John L. Stephens
1846 · 1871 edition
600 pages
Ten Years' Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Published 1892
218 pages
Ancient Egypt transformed
Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, Kei Yamamoto
Published 2015
379 pages
Jerusalem, 1000-1400
Melanie Holcomb, Barbara Drake Boehm
Published 2016
335 pages
Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published 1999
536 pages
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
1891 · 1892 edition
358 pages
Biblia
Charles Henry Stanley Davis
1892 · 1899 edition
466 pages
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
William Mitchell Ramsay
Published 1890
544 pages
Oaths and swearing in ancient Greece
Alan H. Sommerstein, Isabelle C. Torrance, Judith Fletcher, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Lynn Kozak
Published 2014
473 pages
Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Decorative arts
J. Paul Getty Museum, Charissa Bremer-David
Published 1997
128 pages
Sri Lanka at the crossroads of history
Zoltán Biedermann, Alan Strathern
Published 2017
354 pages
The colors of clay
Beth Cohen
Published 2008
371 pages
The ruins of the most beautiful monuments of Greece
David Le Roy
Published 2004
550 pages
The archaeology of colonialism
Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadopoulos
Published 2002
284 pages
The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami
Håkon Hermanstrand
Published 2019
186 pages
Fibula, Fabula, Fact The Viking Age in Finland
Joonas Ahola, Frog, Clive Tolley
Published 2014
519 pages
The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western
John Abercromby
Published 1898
442 pages
Management planning for archaeological sites
Jeanne Marie Teutonico, Gaetano Palumbo
Published 2003
158 pages