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    Disgraceful Archaeology: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind

    By Bill Tidy and Paul G. Bahn

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    The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed — the bawdy, the scatological and the downright bizarre. Our ancestors were not always serious, downtrodden and fearful creatures. They were human like ourselves and shared our earthy sense of humour that is based on bodily functions, bawdiness and slapstick. So it’s time to take the fig leaf off the past and have a long, hard look at the real past — the world that would have had the Victorians reaching for their smelling salts. So if you want to know what your average Egyptian slave thought of pharaoh, or a Roman legionary thought of his commander, you will find the answer in Disgraceful Archaeology — in hilarious graphic detail!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateFeb 29, 2012
    ISBN9780752483337
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    Disgraceful Archaeology: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind
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    Bill Tidy

    Bill Tidy has a worldwide reputation as Britain’s most versatile cartoonist.

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      I bought this book at my first stop on a two week vacation in England...it was at the ruins of a Roman town in St. Albans. I am an archaeologist and it really gave me a laugh. Short chapters and an easy read made it fun. My only wish was that it have more "disgraceful" stories...