Ocial attitudes in our culture have led to the assumption that early advances in human knowledge were the achievements of men; the role of women in prehistoric times has been largely overlooked. In this thought-provoking book, however, Margaret Ehrenberg argues that the true con…
The second and final publication of the British Museum's fieldwork at Kom Firin, presenting key findings from the western Nile Delta, a little-explored yet strategically important area of Egypt. Focusing on two principal areas of the excavations, inside the north-eastern corner …
Kom Firin
by Spencer, Neal, Bunbury, Judith
fromThe British Museum research publication
Astronomy before the telescope: Before the Telescope
This is the most comprehensive account available to the non-specialist reader of the discoveries and achievements of astronomers throughout the world before the invention of the telescope.