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| Contributors | |
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| World Map | |
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| Archaeology Now: New Finds and Fresh Perspectives | |
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| Discoveries from the Ice Age | |
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| New Evidence from Africa: Rewriting the Story of Human Origins | |
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| The Mystery of the Skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia | |
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| The First Europeans and the Pit of the Bones at Atapuerca, Spain | |
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| Boxgrove: The Oldest Human Fossils in Britain | |
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| The 'Hobbit': An Unknown Human Relative? | |
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| Tombs, Graves and Mummies | |
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| The Iceman: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Victim? | |
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| The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen: Men of Stonehenge | |
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| New Revelations from the Pyramids of Giza | |
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| The Tomb of Tutankhamun's Mother? An 18th Dynasty Chamber in the Valley of the Kings | |
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| Pharaoh's Children: The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings | |
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| New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara | |
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| Where the living Feasted with the Dead: The Royal Tombs of Qatna, Syria | |
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| The Royal Tombs of Nimrud, Iraq: The Treasures of Assyrian Queens | |
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| The Great Ryzhanovka Barrow: An Intact Burial of a Scythian Nobleman | |
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| The Valley of the Golden Mummies, Egypt | |
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| Bodies from the Bog: New Insights into life and Death in Pagan Celtic Ireland | |
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| Warriors, Musicians and Acrobats at the Tomb of the First Emperor of China | |
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| The Spitalfields Lady: The Finest Roman Grave Ever Found in London | |
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| Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas, Peru | |
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| Power and Prestige: Middle Sican Elite Tombs of North Coastal Peru | |
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| The Red Queen and Other New Maya Tombs | |
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| Chachapoya: Mummies in the Cloud Forest of Peru | |
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| Inca Mummies: Child Sacrifice on Andean Peaks | |
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| The Prittlewell Prince: An Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial | |
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| Treasures of Ancient Art | |
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| At the Origins of Art: New Discoveries of Decorated Caves | |
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| Black Pharaohs: A Cachette of Statues from Kerma, Sudan | |
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| A Celtic Warrior Prince from Glauberg, Germany | |
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| Artistic Splendours from the Greek and Roman World | |
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| Turkey's Pompeii: The Magnificent Mosaics of Zeuqrna | |
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| The Maize God and the Mythology of Kings: Maya Paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala | |
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| Torcs, Coins and Gold Cups: Ancient Hoards from Britain | |
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| The Hoxne Treasure: A Late Roman Hoard | |
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| Spillings: The World's Biggest Viking Silver Hoard | |
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| Portraits in Pottery: Ceramic Vessels from Lake Titicaca | |
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| Statues of the Buddha from Qingzhou, China | |
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| Lost Cities | |
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| Caral: The Oldest Civilization in Peru and the Americas | |
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| Pyramid City, Giza | |
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| Jinsha: Changing the Map of Ancient China | |
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| Towards a New Jerusalem | |
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| Saxon London, Concealed Beneath the City Streets | |
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| Jamestown: The Fort that was the Birthplace of the United States of America | |
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| Enigmas of Ritual and Religion | |
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| Carved Creatures from the Dawn of Agriculture: Gobekli Tepe, Turkey | |
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| Secrets Revealed at Britain's Henges | |
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| The Nebra Sky Disc: The Oldest Representation of the Heavens | |
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| Helmets and War-Trumpets: A Ritual Hoard from Tintignac, France | |
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| Symbols of Religion and Power: The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan | |
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| Moche Ritual Sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna, Peru | |
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| Discoveries from the Deep | |
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| The World's Oldest Boats, from Abydos, Egypt | |
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| Alexandria Underwater: Greek Cities Beneath the Sea in Egypt | |
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| The Ancient Port and Ships of Pisa | |
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| HMS Pandora: The Ship Sent to Find the Bounty Mutineers | |
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| Submarine and Ironclad: American Civil War Wrecks | |
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| Scientific Discoveries | |
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| DNA and Archaeology | |
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| Ice Ages, Floods and Droughts: The Impact of Climate Change in the Past | |
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| Ancient Wine and Beer | |
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| Medical Science and Archaeology | |
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| Ancient Writing: Early Hieroglyphs from Abydos, Egypt | |
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| Ancient Writing: Biblical Inscriptions | |
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| Ancient Writing: China's 'Dead Sea Scrolls' | |
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| Ancient Writing: New Advances in Maya Decipherment | |
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| Ancient Writing: Deciphering the Knotted Strings of the Incas | |
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| The Cascajal Block: The New World's Oldest Writing | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Sources of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |