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Archaeology
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Lords of the Sea : An archaeology of the medieval Gaelic maritime world (Hardback)Special Price €54.00 Regular Price €59.99
Lords of the Sea examines the archaeology and history of the sea lords and coastal communities who lived on the western seaboard of Ireland and Scotland throughout the later Middle Ages.
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Between Two Rivers€33.00Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
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Crypt : Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond€14.99Beautifully written and expertly researched by Professor Alice Roberts, Crypt is packed with thrilling scientific discoveries that challenge what we thought we knew about history.
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For The Love of Ireland's Buildings (Hardback)€29.99A personal selection by artist Michael Lunt of over 120 drawings and paintings from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar, reflecting the artist’s love of Ireland's buildings and engineering in our towns and landscapes.
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The Naked Neanderthal€23.99What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural traditions.
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The Earl and the Pharaoh : From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun (Paperback)€12.99Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened.
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet : The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects€15.99On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: 'Yes, yes, wonderful things.
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Buried : An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain€11.99Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next.
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The High Fortress: A Guide to the Rock of Dunamase€15.99The ruins of an Anglo-Norman fortress built over an Early Christian Irish Dún, it was fought over, occupied, fortified, reinforced, seized, abandoned, and blown up...
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Anatomical Oddities (Hardback)€21.99Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals?
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The Earl and the Pharaoh : From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun€24.99Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was opened.
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Buried : An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain (Hardback)€23.99Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next.
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The Children of Ash and Elm : A History of the Vikings€22.99'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland
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The World Before Us€13.99How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules.
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Rome Is Burning : Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty€18.99Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire
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Ancestors : A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials€12.99An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.
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The Red Sea Scrolls : How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids€36.99The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads€12.99This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed. THE TIMES Books of the Year Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman, and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research, as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and follows a small, Carnelian, bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat.
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Four Lost Cities : A Secret History of the Urban Age€25.99In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life.
