Most Read This Week In Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy"), is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture and environmental data which they have left behind, which includes artefacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record). The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history. In the United States it is thought of as a branch of anthropology, altho ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Archaeology"

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Bog Queen
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
The Figurine
Excavations
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
Destroyer (The Shattered City, #1)
Ruins
The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Carthage: A New History
A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
Tomb of the Sun King (Raiders of the Arcana, #2)
Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18)
Dark Dive (Underwater Investigation Unit, #5)
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Babylon: The Mother of All Cities
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
God: An Anatomy
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age
Arrow of Fortune (Raiders of the Arcana, #3)
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
The Museum Detective (A Museum Detective Novel)
Trust Me (Evidence: Under Fire, #2)
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Island in the Sun
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Into the Storm (Evidence: Under Fire, #1)
The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Artifacts
The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories
Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know
The House of Two Sisters: A Novel
Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places
Follow Me to Africa
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Homer and His Iliad
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Two Wars and a Wedding
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
The One Impossible Labyrinth (Jack West Jr, #7)
Upon a White Horse: Travels around ancient Britain
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Unearthing the Past)
A Time to Seek (The Time Travel Journals of Sahara Aldridge #1)
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Αρχαιολογία αγάπη μου …έλα πάρε με από δω
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
The Antiquity Affair
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons: Three Kings and a History of Britain at the Dawn of the Viking Age
Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season
A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
The Antique Store Detective (Bella Winter Mystery)
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
The Bone Chests
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England
The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
Spoils of the Dead (Liam Campbell, #6)
The Night Hag
A Dire Isle (Athreya, #2)
Cincinnati Lee, Curse Breaker

Ben Aaronovitch
“ We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological,” I said. “Archaeological?” asked Seawoll. “Could be,” I said. “Is that your professional opinion?” “Yes. ”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground

Agatha Christie
“ An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ”
― Agatha Christie

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