David Price Williams

‘The Journey’ is a novel about St Nicholas. Using hearsay about the great saint – that he was involved with the incense trade and that he travelled to Egypt, Arabia and the Holy Land – as the framework, David has used his own extensive knowledge of the Near East and its peoples to weave a fascinating recreation of the life of Nicholas around the historical scaffolding of the late Roman empire, to show how Nicholas has become our very own Santa Claus.

Swaziland, a small country on the edge of Africa’s Great Escarpment, is a microcosm of African environments. It was the ideal laboratory where Dr David Price Williams and a team of scientists developed a major research project to investigate the evolution of humankind from the dawn of prehistory two million years ago right up to the present. The book charts their ten year journey, along with the fascinating results of their search, and how David designed and built the Swaziland National Museum....

Knidos was renowned for its nude statue of the goddess Aphrodite. This book is about searching for Aphrodite, a memoire exploring the author’s involvement with the excavation of the huge city, while his own life was transformed from adolescent gaucheness into the beginnings of maturity. Laced with poetic evocations of the ancient and modern world, it contains hilarious stories of the people he met along the way.

David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and ‘An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist’ is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.