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In an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity, it time we ask: which innovations brought about truly significant and long-lasting transformations?
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What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, Robin Derricourt takes us on a journey through the birth and growth of the major religions, along the way using history and archaeology to recreate the times, places and societies that witnessed the birth of significant monotheistic faiths.
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The first book to survey the ‘hidden half’ of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology – from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age foragers, from farming villages to the beginnings of civilisation.
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From landing markers for UFOs to the popular mythology of the ‘pharoah’s curse’, Robin Derricourt’s Antiquity Imagined surveys the various claims that have been made for Egypt – particularly the idea that it harbours an esoteric wisdom vital to the world’s survival.
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Images of ‘Africa’, simplifying a complex and diverse continent, have existed from ancient Mediterranean worlds, slave trading nations and colonial powers to today’s political elites, ecotourists and aid-givers. This book is a critical account of narratives which have selectively interpreted and misinterpreted the continent’s deep past.
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