Antiquities Archaeology category: 284 books
The Ark Before Noah
Decoding the Story of the Flood
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history.
Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and...
by Dr. Katherine A. Shaner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Enslaved persons were ubiquitous in the first- and second-century CE Roman Empire, and early Christian texts reflect this fact. Yet the implications of enslaved presence in religious practices are under-examined in early Christian and Roman history. Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity argues...
The Anunnaki Chronicles
A Zecharia Sitchin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
An insider’s look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin’s books as well as an in-depth overview of his theories and discoveries
• Includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series as well as never-before-published letters, articles, and lectures
•...
by Austen Layard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art and military of the ancient city of Nineveh. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the...
by Norman Golb
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls...
A Cosmos in Stone
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of...
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology
The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén...
Excavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China,...
THIS LAND
AMERICA 2,000 B.C. TO 500 A.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Wayne May has done more work and research on the North American setting for the Book of Mormon than any single individual. The evidence he has compiled is overwhelming as a witness not only to the setting of this book of scripture, but also to the reality of the Book of Mormon as a historical...
Unwrapping the Pharaohs
How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
"THE PYRAMIDS ARE THE OLDEST MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION ON THE EARTH. THESE STRUCTURES AND THE RELICS THEY CONTAIN ARE THE MOST TANGIBLE PHYSICAL LINKS WITH OUR ANCIENT PAST AND PROVIDE IMPORTANT CLUES TO OUR ORIGINS."
-From the Introduction
Mummies, pyramids, and pharaohs! The culture...
by Robert Cornuke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In a book that is being heralded as an “investigative masterpiece” with “astounding archeological and prophetic implications,” TEMPLE: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon’s Temple, by Robert Cornuke, is sending shockwaves through the Jewish, Muslim,...
Israel in Egypt
The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have in the last decade begun to question the historical accuracy of the Israelite sojourn in Egypt, as described in the book of Exodus. The reason for the rejection of the exodus tradition is said to be the lack of historical and archaeological evidence in Egypt. Those...
Proving Biblical Nazareth
Evidence for the Key Sites of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
“This book provides challenging material that requires a re-think on the understanding of traditional Nazareth. The historical analysis has good *correlation to biblical time frames.” ~ *Dr. Murray Adamthwaite, Historian, Theologian, Linguist.
The centre of modern Nazareth has...
Material Culture and Sacred Landscape
The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings...