Books in the Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology series

Charles Roach Smith (1806-90) had a prosperous career as a druggist. This three-volume work, published 1883-91, reviews his activities as an excavator, collector, and co-founder of the British Archaeological Association. Volume 1 includes essays on the Saxon Shore forts, of which Roach Smith was a pioneering investigator.

Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht (1859-1925) was a leading German-American archaeologist and Assyriologist. This generously illustrated book, first published in 1904, describes the early British, French and American excavations in Assyria and Babylon during the nineteenth century. It provides a valuable retrospective account and evaluation of the archaeological beginnings of Assyriology.

Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) was a British archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman artefacts. This study, first published in 1862, describes Newton's excavations of sites including the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, a wonder of the ancient world, and provides valuable insights into Victorian archaeological methods. Part 1 focuses on the Mausoleum.

The bulk of this 1929 work is an alphabetical list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome mentioned by ancient authors and/or discovered by more recent exploration and excavation of the ruins, with details about literary and historical references, and about the original and any surviving structure.

William Hutton, a Birmingham bookseller, published his History of Birmingham (also reissued in this series) in his late fifties. Hutton was also famous for his walking exploits, which led to his 1801 expedition to Hadrian's Wall, and his 1802 account, of which the 1813 second edition is reissued here.

The archaeologist D.G. Hogarth (1862-1927) became acting director of the Cairo Arab Bureau during the First World War, and, later, president of the Royal Geographical Society. This account of his early experiences in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus illuminates the close relationship between archaeology and politics in the period.

The archaeologist D. G. Hogarth was, during the First World War, acting director of the Cairo Arab Bureau, and later became president of the Royal Geographical Society. His 1902 survey of the Near East's contemporary political and commercial significance describes the condition of the region in the build-up to the conflict.