📚 Archaeology

The discipline of material culture: survey, dating, interpretation — and the spectacular misreadings along the way.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject archaeology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte	C. W. Ceram	1949	115
	Erinnerungen an die Zukunft	Erich von Däniken	1968	70
	Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung	Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athenische Abteilung	1876	53
	The Clyde mystery	Andrew Lang	1905	52
	Annali	Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica	1829	43
	Pleasure of ruins	Rose Macaulay	1953	41
	World Prehistory and Archaeology	Michael Chazan	2007	28
	Archaeology	Mark Q. Sutton	2002	27
	The World of Archaeology	C. W. Ceram	1966	23
	Archaeology	Kevin Greene	1983	23
	In the beginning	Brian M. Fagan	1972	22
	The history of Atlantis	Lewis Spence	1900	20
	The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber	2021	19
	Archaeology	Brian M. Fagan	1978	18
	Our Kind	Marvin Harris	1989	18
	The Greek stones speak	Paul Lachlan MacKendrick	1962	16
	Frauds, myths, and mysteries	Kenneth L. Feder	1990	15
	Digging up the past	Leonard Woolley	1921	14
	The treasury of ancient Egypt	Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall	1911	13
	The Past in Perspective	Kenneth L. Feder	1995	13
	Ancient cities	Charles Gates	2003	13
	The lost continent of Mu	James Churchward	1931	12
	Archeological Investigations	Gerard Fowke	2015	12
	Archaic England	Harold Bayley	1919	11
	World's Most Amazing Lost Cities	Ann Weil	2011	11
	Discovering our past	Wendy Ashmore	1988	10
	Archaeology	Colin Renfrew	2008	9
	Archaeology in the Holy Land	Kathleen M. Kenyon	1960	8
	Archaeology	Colin Renfrew	1991	8
	Archeology	Jane McIntosh	1994	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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