Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a ser

This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evi

"A challenging thesis about Greek prehistory--that the miraculous jump into the Greece of our history was made in the eleventh century B.C., during the pre-Chri

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentall