📚 Antiquities

Objects from the ancient world: collections and markets, and the argument about who gets to own the past.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject antiquities 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
	The Natural History of Selborne	Gilbert White	1822	83
	La cité antique	Numa Fustel de Coulanges	1870	72
	Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung	Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athenische Abteilung	1876	53
	The Clyde mystery	Andrew Lang	1905	52
	The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen	Carter, Howard	1923	33
	The mummy	E. A. Wallis Budge	1893	31
	The pyramids of Egypt	I. E. S. Edwards	1947	20
	The Maya	Michael D. Coe	1966	17
	1491	Charles C. Mann	2005	17
	The Greek stones speak	Paul Lachlan MacKendrick	1962	16
	Most ancient East	V. Gordon Childe	1928	14
	The treasury of ancient Egypt	Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall	1911	13
	The Scythians	Tamara Talbot Rice	1957	12
	Egypt of the Pharaohs	Alan Henderson Gardiner	1961	12
	Ancient Egypt (Great Ages of Man)	Lionel Casson	1965	12
	Glastonbury	Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)	1934	10
	The face of the ancient Orient	Sabatino Moscati	1960	10
	The birth of civilization in the Near East	Henri Frankfort	1950	9
	Egyptology	James Putnam	1990	9
	Civilizations of the ancient Near East	Jack M. Sasson	1995	8
	Antiques handbook & price guide	Judith Miller	2010	8
	Rivers in the desert	Nelson Glueck	1959	7
	Mummies Made in Egypt	Aliki	1979	7
	The Maldive mystery	Thor Heyerdahl	1986	7
	Pagan Ireland	Eleanor Hull	1904	6
	Ancient America (Great Ages of Man)	Jonathan Norton Leonard	1967	6
	The rape of the Nile	Brian M. Fagan	1975	6
	The archaeology of Greece	William R. Biers	1980	6
	The search for Omm Sety	Jonathan Cott	1987	6
	Written in bone	Sally M. Walker	2008	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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