Books in the The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual series

The latter part of the 3rd millennium BC witnessed severe dislocations in the social, economic and political structures of the lands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea - the Levant.

This book shows how travellers and scholars since Roman times have put together their maps of the land east of the River Jordan.

R. A. Stewart Macalister is an important but controversial figure in the history of Palestinian archaeology.

In 1909 the Scottish archaeologist Duncan Mackenzie, Sir Arthur Evans' right-hand man on the excavations of the legendary 'Palace of Minos' at Knossos since 1900, was appointed 'Explorer' of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). This title sheds light on the history of field archaeology and of biblical archaeology.