Archaeology & Anthropology

Troy and Its Remains A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain

Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann’s Troy and Its Remains is a first‑hand archaeological memoir that chronicles his…

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

H. C. Yarrow

The work is a scholarly ethnographic report by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, an assistant surgeon of the U.S.

The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative

Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich

The work is a scholarly travel‑history that blends geography with the study of ancient and more recent…

A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum

British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities

This work is a museum guide produced by the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities…

Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest

H. M. Wormington

The book is a scholarly overview of the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the American Southwest, written by…

Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria

Zénaïde A. Ragozin

Zénaïde A. Ragozin’s Chaldea offers a sweeping, encyclopedic survey of the ancient Near East, beginning with…

The Central Eskimo Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670

Franz Boas

The Central Eskimo is a scholarly ethnographic report compiled for the Smithsonian’s Bureau of Ethnology,…

History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c.

U. J. Jones

Uriah James Jones’s work is a nineteenth‑century regional history that sets out to fill the gaps left by…

The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 (of 2) Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity

Julius Rosenbaum

Julius Rosenbaum’s The Plague of Lust, Vol. 2 offers a scholarly survey of how ancient writers described…

Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Caillié, René; Jomard, M.

René Caillié’s two‑volume account is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records his journey across the…

The Roman Wall A historical, topographical, and descriptive account of the barrier of the lower isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, deduced from numerous personal surveys

J. Collingwood Bruce

The Roman Wall presents itself as a scholarly survey of the ancient Roman frontier that stretches from the…

Big People and Little People of Other Lands

Edward R. Shaw

The work is a late‑Victorian children’s geography reader that introduces young readers to distant cultures…

Mesopotamian Archaeology An introduction to the archaeology of Mesopotamia and Assyria

Percy S. P. Handcock

Percy S. P. Handcock’s Mesopotamian Archaeology is a scholarly survey that seeks to condense the expanding…

The Iroquois; or, the bright side of Indian character

Anna C. Johnson

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic study that seeks to present the customs, government, religion…

The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy

Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

The book is a scholarly survey of Italian archaeology that begins with a vivid account of post‑World War II…

A Glimpse at Guatemala And Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

Maudslay, Anne Cary; Maudslay, Alfred Percival

The book is a travel‑and‑archaeology memoir by Anne Cary Maudslay and her husband Alfred Percival,…

Indian Boyhood

Charles A. Eastman

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Charles A. East Eastman, a Sioux boy who recounts his earliest…

Myths of the Modocs

Jeremiah Curtin

Myths of the Modocs is a scholarly collection of traditional narratives recorded by Jeremiah A.

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is a scholarly treatise that surveys the early…

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

Adney, Tappan; Chapelle, Howard Irving

The work is a scholarly monograph issued as number 230 of the United States National Museum Bulletin series,…

The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882

Désiré Charnay

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue and scholarly treatise by French explorer Désiré Charnay, written…

Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860

Henri Mouhot

This volume is a posthumous compilation of Henri Mouhot’s private letters, journal entries, and assorted…

The lost Atlantis, and other ethnographic studies

Sir Daniel Wilson

The work is a scholarly miscellany assembled by Daniel Wilson Sir after his death in 1892, presented as his…

Hadrian's Wall

Jessie Mothersole

The work is a detailed antiquarian account of Hadrian’s Wall, written by Jessie Mothersole and anchored in…