Step Inside the World’s Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
The past is closer than you think. Each volume in the Uncovering series brings you inside the excavations through in-depth storytelling and exclusive insights from excavations at some of the world’s most iconic archaeological sites.
The Archaeological Institute of America, the oldest and largest archaeological organization in North America, has partnered with leading scholars to create four richly illustrated, expertly researched volumes. Each is a standalone read. Together, they tell the story of the human past at its most extraordinary.
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New Release: Uncovering Uluburun
The Bronze Age’s richest shipwreck — and the world that built it.
Next up in the Uncovering series is the true tale of the discovery of the Bronze Age’s richest shipwreck. Travel to Uluburun, or the “Grand Cape,” on the coast of of Turkey and to the year 1320 b.c., when a vessel laden with 20 tons of cargo sank, including an extraordinary array of 18,000 objects from exotic locations across the Mediterranean and beyond. Uncovering Uluburun offers you an insider’s look at the merchants, mariners, and kings of the Bronze Age Mediterranean, the first great age of seafaring, commerce, and connectivity.
Uncovering Easter Island
The story of the moai — and the people who never stopped believing in them.
On this remote Pacific island, beginning about 1,000 years ago, Indigenous people carved the enormous stone moai. Read about how these ingenious artists created and moved the immense statues, theories of what may have happened to the island’s ancient inhabitants, and how today’s Rapanui people are embracing these stunning monuments of their past.
Uncovering Pylos
A warrior’s tomb, a lost palace, and the age of Mycenaean kings.
Like Troy, the ancient site of Pylos figures in the Trojan War as the home of the famous king Nestor, whose palace was discovered there nearly a century ago. Since then, archaeologists have worked to uncover extraordinary architecture and artifacts of the Mycenaean age, including the spectacular tomb of the Griffin Warrior, whose riches are revealed in these pages.
Uncovering Troy
The city behind the legend — and the archaeologists who proved it was.
Troy is one of the best-known sites in the ancient world. During the Bronze Age, nearly 3,500 years ago, this was the location of the Trojan War, the epic battle chronicled by the ancient Greek poet Homer. This exciting volume provides an overview of Troy’s history and of the significant finds made by archaeologists who have worked there since it was discovered in 1871.
The AIA thanks Richard C. MacDonald for his generous support of the Uncovering Publications Project.
