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
Exploring deer parks: our oldest and wildest gardens From art and literature, to royal emblems, to your local pub, the white hart has leapt and gambolled across British history, taking shelter under the ancient trees of deer parks. As part of our National Gardening Day celebrations, John Fletcher, author of Gardens of Earthly Delight, explores… Read More »The Hart of the Matter
Be it medicinal herbs or antibiotics, humans have been healing since there have been humans to heal. As we’re already Putting Science & Medicine Under the Microscope for #WorldHealthDay, why not supplement your knowledge with this globetrotting timeline inspired by just a few of our health-giving titles on the history of medicine?
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