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Get those hands dirty: archaeology, soil and earth

WHAT LIES BENEATH US LIES BEFORE US

Books about digging, the ground we walk on and the stories buried underneath our feet. From dinosaurs / paleontology, anthropology, ancient history, archaeology to the soil and geology and all its wonders. Non-fiction only

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Archaeology

Books that (and I mean literally) dig up the past

All That Remains: A Life in Death

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

All That Remains: A Life in Death

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

The Non-fiction I Listen to in the Car/Before Bed

For when music just won't cut it and you need a new weird hyperfixation.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Bitch: On the Female of the Species

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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