📚 Excavations

The dig itself: stratigraphy, recording, and what a single well-dug trench can be made to say.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject excavations (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
	Culture	Canada. Dept. of External Affairs.	1963	43
	The Seven Storey Mountain	Thomas Merton	1948	39
	The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen	Carter, Howard	1923	33
	The Analysis of Matter	Bertrand Russell	1927	23
	Shadow Divers	Robert Kurson	2004	21
	Ancient lives	Brian M. Fagan	2000	17
	Carnac	Zacharie Le Rouzic	1901	16
	The Greek stones speak	Paul Lachlan MacKendrick	1962	16
	The murder of King Tut	James Patterson	2009	16
	Ur en Chaldée	Leonard Woolley	1920	15
	Digging up the past	Leonard Woolley	1921	14
	Fort St. George	Jeffrey P. Brain	1995	14
	BC, the archaeology of the Bible lands	Magnus Magnusson	1977	13
	Excavations	Isabel Bennett	1990	13
	문화유적지표조사보고	Mokpʻo Taehak. Pangmulgwan	1998	13
	Vergina	Manolis Andronikos	1969	12
	Report of archaeological watching brief	Stuart Farrell	2003	12
	Tell Chuēra in Nordost-Syrien	Anton Moortgat	1959	11
	Stonehenge	R. J. C. Atkinson	1956	10
	The Last Days of the Incas	Kim MacQuarrie	2007	10
	Ancient Lives	Brian M. Fagan	2011	10
	Digging for history	Edward Bacon	1960	9
	The Rock Tombs of El-Hawawish	Naguib Kanawati	1980	9
	In search of the Trojan War	Wood, Michael	1985	9
	Archaeology in the Holy Land	Kathleen M. Kenyon	1960	8
	In search of the Dark Ages	Wood, Michael	1981	8
	Tomb of the Eagles	John W. Hedges	1984	8
	Archaeology in the Holy Land	Kathleen M. Kenyon	1960	7
	Excavations at Thera	Spyridōn Marinatos	1968	7
	The road to Ubar	Nicholas Clapp	1998	7

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

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