Day 11: Rocks & Rock Art It’s safe to say that today’s Advent Calendar theme rocks! With books on quarry landscapes, Dakhleh Oasis petroglyphs, and volumes from Oxbow’s Swedish Rock Art Research series, you’re sure to find something you love. Apply code ADVENT11 at checkout before midnight on 11th December 2025 to enjoy 50% off… Read More »Advent Calendar Day 11
Day 10: Military Matters It’s day 10 of the Advent Calendar and we have a strong selection of books on a variety of military matters. Learn more about the remuneration of soldiers in Antiquity, unearth the incredible story of Operation Nightingale, gain insights into The Battle of Pinkie, and more. Apply code ADVENT10 at checkout… Read More »Advent Calendar Day 10
Some early Christmas post for you: the Oxbow Advent Calendar is back! Once again, we’ll be counting down to Christmas by delivering a festive 50% off five fantastic books on a different archaeological theme every day from 1st-24th December. Make sure to check the front page of the Script Books blog each day to find… Read More »Advent Calendar 2025
Explore how the first farmers of the Mediterranean faced the eternal question of death, and how the study of funerary practices can reveal new ways of imagining life in the past with this blog by the editors of Exploring Death. By Berta Morell-Rovira, F. Xavier Oms, Gerard Remolins & Juan F. Gibaja | 3 min… Read More »Tales of Life and Death in the Western Mediterranean
This year, to mark both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day we are highlighting the incredible contribution of women to the archaeology of Iran, from the earliest horizons of humanity through the Islamic period. Learn more about some of the extraordinary female contributors to New Voices in Iranian Archaeology (Oxbow Books, 2024), whose research… Read More »New Voices for Women’s History Month
To tie in with the Silk Roads exhibition at The British Museum(Sept 2024 – February 2025), we put together a sensational selection of books on silk and the Silk Roads. These volumes will help you weave your way from East to West, gaining insight into these significant trade routes and the precious fibre which gave… Read More »Read Your Way Along the Silk Roads
Top 10 facts about the Rude Man of Dorset! As a result of National Trust excavations in 2020, and the subsequent geophysical, land snail and auger surveys in 2023 and 2024, we have learnt much more about the Rude Man of Dorset, otherwise known as the Cerne Abbas Giant. In this blog, Michael J. Allen,… Read More »What you didn’t know about the Cerne Abbas Giant
Uncovering a Wealth of Information Using Everyday Objects The tomb of Tutankhamun, opened up by Howard Carter and his team in November 1922, is the only “essentially intact” pharaoh’s tomb to have been found. However the glittering golden artefacts discovered within this royal resting place may have blinded people to the importance of the scientific… Read More »The Real Treasure of Tutankhamun
Here is your sign to learn more about what makes humans ‘symbolic animals’. In this blog, Guido Guarducci, co-editor of Archaeology of Symbols, explores the ways in which people have used symbols throughout history, and continue to do so today, highlighting how this can increase our knowledge of our past. By Guido Guarducci | 2.5… Read More »The Symbolic Animal
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