Introduction:
Discover the secrets of ancient lives through cutting-edge science and archaeology in Alice Roberts' compelling collection. Unveil the mysteries of funerary rituals, Middle Ages burials, and Britain's earliest ancestors. This journey through bones, graves, and crypts reveals intimate and inclusive histories often untold.

Titles In This Set:
Crypt [Hardcover]
Buried
Ancestors

Crypt [Hardcover]:
We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful, there’s barely a written note for most people’s lives. Archaeology represents another way of interrogating our history. By using cutting-edge science to examine human remains and burials, it is possible to unearth details about how individuals lived and died that give us a new understanding of the past – one that is more intimate and inclusive than ever before.

Buried:
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.

Ancestors:
We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons, from burial sites and by using new technology to analyse ancient DNA.Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went and how we came to be on this island.