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That is one of the nice things about the Amazon store. It's saved me from re-buying a book more than once.
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Something slightly at a tangent, but which may still be of interest, is John Preston's 2007 book, "The Dig". This is a novelisation (but with all the original people in it) of the discovery and excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in the late 1930s, the most significant and well-known archaeological discovery from Anglo-Saxon Britain (the "Sutton Hoo Horde" today occupies a whole room at the British Museum). Very interesting and readable.
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So far, I've read Gods, Graves & Scholars, by Ceram, Egypt: How a Lost Civilization Was Rediscovered, The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Fox. All very interesting books and worth reading. Gods, Graves & Scholars was a bit dated, having been last revised in the early 60's, but I did enjoy the writing style. Always interesting getting the German view of things.
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A bit off-topic since the OP asked for ebook recommendations - but I have been buying/subscribing to The Great Courses online and enjoy their history/archaeology content enormously, especially the courses on ancient civilizations. The courses are akin to first year college courses (I am told) and are usually very expensive to purchase on TheGreatCourses.com but the subscription to TheGreatCoursesPlus.com (two different websites) costs as little as $12.50/month if billed annually and you can watch as much as you like! These give my eyes a much needed break from reading, I can chill out and just listen to the audio. Here's a list of their History courses:
https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/...Categories_0_0 The individual courses are infrequently available on fantastic discounts through Amazon US, examples are in the spoiler below, recently posted by AnemicOak on the FREE/BARGAIN Media Deals thread. I picked up 5 of these at 99 cents each (!) and watch via the Amazon Prime Video app or through the Amazon website (and I don't have Prime at the moment - just use the app for my purchased content). I believe these are still available at the sale prices. Spoiler:
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A lot of people prefer videos for learning, but I've always preferred books. I have heard good things about The Great Courses though.
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Thanks to everyone for the suggestions in this thread. Although I have a personal interest in archaeology, I don't consider myself to be a scholar by any means and I haven't kept abreast of current research.
However, I have a mini-list which might have some interesting / useful titles (I don't think they have already been mentioned): Chadwick, John. The decipherment of Linear B. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Originally published in 1958) Coe, Michael D. Breaking the Maya code. 3rd ed. Thames & Hudson, 2012. Stephens, John Lloyd. Incidents of travel in Yucatan. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. [1848] (Available via Project Gutenberg) Robinson, Andrew. Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion. Oxford University Press, 2012. MacKendrick, Paul. The Greek stones speak : the story of archaeology in Greek lands. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. W. W. Norton, 1983. [paper only] (Originally published 1966 [?]) Schliemann, Heinrich. Troy and its remains. 1875. (Available via Project Gutenberg) Johnson, Marilyn. Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble. 1st ed. Harper, 2014. |
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I have read the Chadwick book: it's great!
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You might find something that tickles your fancy at:
https://archive.org/search.php?query...heology%29&and[]=subject%3A%22Archeology%22 Be aware though that many of these can only be usefully downloaded as image based PDFs so are quite large. BobC |