The Land of Open Graves Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Jason De León
Published 2015
358 pages
The most popular 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.
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Cahokia Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Timothy R. Pauketat
Published 2009
194 pages
Pyramid
David Macaulay
1975 · 1997 edition
85 pages
The Savage Stone Age
Terry Diary
Published 1999
128 pages
Ancestors A prehistory of Britain in seven burials
Alice M. Roberts
2021 · 2025 edition
448 pages
Underworld The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
Graham Hancock
2002 · 2003 edition
784 pages
The McDonaldization of Society
George Ritzer
1993 · 1994 edition
240 pages
Cro-Magnon How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Brian Fagan
Published 2010
320 pages
Peeps at Many Lands
James Baikie
1987 · 2025 edition
82 pages
Confronting the Classics Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Mary Beard
Published 2013
310 pages
Gods, Graves and Scholars A Story of Archaeology, Second Revised Edition.
C. W. Ceram
Published 1986
576 pages
Don't Know Much About Mythology Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
2005 · 2006 edition
560 pages
American Nerd
Benjamin Nugent
Published 2008
240 pages
The Writing of the Gods
Edward Dolnick
Published 2021
336 pages
Palestine A Four Thousand Year History
نور مصالحه
2018 · 2023 edition
464 pages
Veiled Sentiments Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Lila Abu-Lughod
1986 · 2016 edition
384 pages
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts
Bryan Sykes
2006 · 2007 edition
336 pages
Tut's Mummy
Judy Donnelly
Published 1988
48 pages
Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally M. Walker
2009 · 2026 edition
144 pages
The Crisis of the Modern World
René Guénon
1976 · 2022 edition
138 pages
Steps to an Ecology of Mind Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Gregory Bateson
1972 · 2000 edition
533 pages
Young and Damned and Fair The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell
Published 2017
436 pages
The True History of Chocolate
Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe
1996 · 2019 edition
280 pages
To Kill a Nation The Attack on Yugoslavia
Michael Parenti
Published 2000
246 pages