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Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Our lovely editors presented their new publication El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica at the Ateneo Peninsular in Mérida.🏺
Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our lovely editors presented their new publication El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica at the Ateneo Peninsular in Mérida.🏺
Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
We are so pleased to see a lovely review of Anna C. Moles' Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health: A long-term study at Knossos, Crete in the BMCR!
Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We are so pleased to see a lovely review of Anna C. Moles' Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health: A long-term study at Knossos, Crete in the BMCR!
Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
📣New Book Alert📣
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📣New Book Alert📣
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity.
The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
It's been a few weeks since we've posted our favourite animal artefact for #FindsFriday! 🏺
The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's been a few weeks since we've posted our favourite animal artefact for #FindsFriday! 🏺
The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
Our recent publication Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology is the topic of session 4I at the ASOR conference today at 4:25-6:30 EST.
Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our recent publication Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology is the topic of session 4I at the ASOR conference today at 4:25-6:30 EST.
Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺
This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺
This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
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Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺
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Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺
Sign up here to receive our newsletter and take advantage of 20% off all private purchases.
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
You've got mail! 📬
Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺
Sign up here to receive our newsletter and take advantage of 20% off all private purchases.
Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺
Sign up here to receive our newsletter and take advantage of 20% off all private purchases.
Such beautiful objects on display at the exhibition in Oxford on the extraordinary Sanxingdui site! 🏺
The exhibit is hosted by the Confucius Institute at Headington Hill Hall and is open for a few more days next week. Check it out here!
The exhibit is hosted by the Confucius Institute at Headington Hill Hall and is open for a few more days next week. Check it out here!
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Such beautiful objects on display at the exhibition in Oxford on the extraordinary Sanxingdui site! 🏺
The exhibit is hosted by the Confucius Institute at Headington Hill Hall and is open for a few more days next week. Check it out here!
The exhibit is hosted by the Confucius Institute at Headington Hill Hall and is open for a few more days next week. Check it out here!
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NINO offers a variety of fellowships, grants, and prizes, in support of researchers and students working on the ancient Near East (incl. Egypt) in the Netherlands and abroad.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
NINO offers a variety of fellowships, grants, and prizes, in support of researchers and students working on the ancient Near East (incl. Egypt) in the Netherlands and abroad.
It was lovely to see BAR author Lilian Ladle at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference last weekend!🏺
Pictured here with the Britannia Award she received on behalf of the Druce Farm Villa Volunteer Group.
Read more about the Druce Farm site in her book: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Pictured here with the Britannia Award she received on behalf of the Druce Farm Villa Volunteer Group.
Read more about the Druce Farm site in her book: doi.org/10.30861/978...
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It was lovely to see BAR author Lilian Ladle at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference last weekend!🏺
Pictured here with the Britannia Award she received on behalf of the Druce Farm Villa Volunteer Group.
Read more about the Druce Farm site in her book: doi.org/10.30861/978...
Pictured here with the Britannia Award she received on behalf of the Druce Farm Villa Volunteer Group.
Read more about the Druce Farm site in her book: doi.org/10.30861/978...
With #ISAC25 well underway we wanted to share some of our newest titles relating to Islamic Archaeology.🏺
They are all available now on our website: www.barpublishing.com
They are all available now on our website: www.barpublishing.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
With #ISAC25 well underway we wanted to share some of our newest titles relating to Islamic Archaeology.🏺
They are all available now on our website: www.barpublishing.com
They are all available now on our website: www.barpublishing.com
📣Now Available📣
Valeria La Monaca's Delicati and Delicia in the Roman Empire analyzes literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources to offer a comprehensive portrayal of delicati and delicia as status symbols, especially of ambitious libertine families.🏺
Valeria La Monaca's Delicati and Delicia in the Roman Empire analyzes literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources to offer a comprehensive portrayal of delicati and delicia as status symbols, especially of ambitious libertine families.🏺
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📣Now Available📣
Valeria La Monaca's Delicati and Delicia in the Roman Empire analyzes literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources to offer a comprehensive portrayal of delicati and delicia as status symbols, especially of ambitious libertine families.🏺
Valeria La Monaca's Delicati and Delicia in the Roman Empire analyzes literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources to offer a comprehensive portrayal of delicati and delicia as status symbols, especially of ambitious libertine families.🏺
Happy Halloween! 🏺🎃
What better way to celebrate than with a spooky #findsfriday?
This Moche bottle, featuring a skeleton couple and their child, is currently on display at @metmuseum.org.
What better way to celebrate than with a spooky #findsfriday?
This Moche bottle, featuring a skeleton couple and their child, is currently on display at @metmuseum.org.
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy Halloween! 🏺🎃
What better way to celebrate than with a spooky #findsfriday?
This Moche bottle, featuring a skeleton couple and their child, is currently on display at @metmuseum.org.
What better way to celebrate than with a spooky #findsfriday?
This Moche bottle, featuring a skeleton couple and their child, is currently on display at @metmuseum.org.
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Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper
#RomanArchaeology
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Shameless plug: all this is discussed in my book, www.barpublishing.com/book/drawing.... Most of Topham's drawings are of mosaics in Rome; the small RB section is rare and delightful.
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Drawings of Roman Mosaics in the Topham Collection, Eton College Library - BAR Publishing
This fully illustrated study brings together over 70 prints and drawings of mosaics from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham (1671-1730). Some are the only known records of m...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Shameless plug: all this is discussed in my book, www.barpublishing.com/book/drawing.... Most of Topham's drawings are of mosaics in Rome; the small RB section is rare and delightful.
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Feeling inspired by the IKUWA conference? Consider submitting a proposal for our specialist sub-series Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology🏺⛵
Contact editor@barpublishing.com or submit a proposal here.
Contact editor@barpublishing.com or submit a proposal here.
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Feeling inspired by the IKUWA conference? Consider submitting a proposal for our specialist sub-series Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology🏺⛵
Contact editor@barpublishing.com or submit a proposal here.
Contact editor@barpublishing.com or submit a proposal here.
We are very sad to be missing out on the book launch of Hazard and Disaster Risk in Ostia at the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte this evening!
Wishing our authors all the best in Rome!🏺
Wishing our authors all the best in Rome!🏺
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We are very sad to be missing out on the book launch of Hazard and Disaster Risk in Ostia at the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte this evening!
Wishing our authors all the best in Rome!🏺
Wishing our authors all the best in Rome!🏺
We are so pleased to see so many of our authors and members of the editorial committee for our sub-series The Maritime Archaeology Trust Monograph Series presenting at IKUWA today! We've highlighted their recent publications with us below.🌊🏺
October 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We are so pleased to see so many of our authors and members of the editorial committee for our sub-series The Maritime Archaeology Trust Monograph Series presenting at IKUWA today! We've highlighted their recent publications with us below.🌊🏺
The newest BAR Bulletin has arrived! 📬
Head to your inboxes (or to barpublishing.com) to check out our new books!
Remember that all BAR Members received 20% off their private purchases. Sign up here: www.barpublishing.com/bar-membersh...
Head to your inboxes (or to barpublishing.com) to check out our new books!
Remember that all BAR Members received 20% off their private purchases. Sign up here: www.barpublishing.com/bar-membersh...
October 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The newest BAR Bulletin has arrived! 📬
Head to your inboxes (or to barpublishing.com) to check out our new books!
Remember that all BAR Members received 20% off their private purchases. Sign up here: www.barpublishing.com/bar-membersh...
Head to your inboxes (or to barpublishing.com) to check out our new books!
Remember that all BAR Members received 20% off their private purchases. Sign up here: www.barpublishing.com/bar-membersh...
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NEW TRAJ #BookReview
Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken
"an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts"
doi.org/10.16995/tra...
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Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken
"an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts"
doi.org/10.16995/tra...
@barpublishing.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
NEW TRAJ #BookReview
Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken
"an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts"
doi.org/10.16995/tra...
@barpublishing.bsky.social
Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken
"an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts"
doi.org/10.16995/tra...
@barpublishing.bsky.social
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Check out Dr Uckelmann's full review in our #NewBookChronicle on the theme 'maritime and underwater #archaeology' 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Check out Dr Uckelmann's full review in our #NewBookChronicle on the theme 'maritime and underwater #archaeology' 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Our Editorial Director Jacqueline Senior is looking forward to attending IKUWA 8 next week! Email editor@barpublishing.com to book a meeting with her.
Take a look at our Open Access publication on the IKUWA 7 proceedings which was featured in the newest issue of @antiquity.ac.uk here. 🌊🏺
Take a look at our Open Access publication on the IKUWA 7 proceedings which was featured in the newest issue of @antiquity.ac.uk here. 🌊🏺
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our Editorial Director Jacqueline Senior is looking forward to attending IKUWA 8 next week! Email editor@barpublishing.com to book a meeting with her.
Take a look at our Open Access publication on the IKUWA 7 proceedings which was featured in the newest issue of @antiquity.ac.uk here. 🌊🏺
Take a look at our Open Access publication on the IKUWA 7 proceedings which was featured in the newest issue of @antiquity.ac.uk here. 🌊🏺
We are thrilled to see the research from Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town as the cover feature in the newest issue of
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October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We are thrilled to see the research from Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town as the cover feature in the newest issue of
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