Raksha Dave Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Raksha Dave is a television presenter, author, and an archaeologist.

She is also the president of the Council for British Archaeology. Born August 22, 1977, she is an accomplished author with a background in archaeology. She attended the Institute of Archaeology in 1999 in London and graduated with her degree in archaeology successfully. From there, there was no turning back.

Raksha married Nigel Jeffries in 2017. Her spouse is a medieval and post-medieval pottery expert who is employed at the Museum of London.

Dave has worked excavating in London with a commercial archaeological unit with the Museum of London Archaeology Service. She has also worked in Turkey at the World Heritage Site as well as sites located in Puerto Rico and Texas.

She has appeared on television on many different programs. She has been featured as a field archaeologist from 2003 to 2013 on Time Team, recruited by Channel Four. She has also presented on Digging for Britain season 7 and presented the BBC Learning Zone Ancient Voices program on prehistory, as well as co-presented for Channel 5’s Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence.

Raksha has also been herself on Inside Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace with Alexander Armstrong, The Vikings, The Great Stink of 1858, The Great Killer Smog, Digging for Treasure: Tonight, Tsunami, Jeremy Vine, Central Tonight, The Great Plague, Bone Detectives, Tut’s Final Secrets, Digging Up Britain’s Past, and more.

Dave advocates for increasing archaeologist diversity. She has served as a CBA (Council for British Archaeology) as a trustee, and has served as a patron for the Young Archaeologists Club. It was announced in 2021 that Dave would be the president of the organization for three years. She has co-founded DigVentures, an archaeological social enterprise. She also serves as a research affiliate for the Pitt Rivers Museum for the University of Oxford.

Raksha has a true passion for community work and working with the public, something she realized in London while employed by local authority. She returned to the heritage sector later and ended up developing and managing different HLF funded community projects. She has also been on the board of trustees for the Council for British Archaeology in London and has been a patron and an advocate for the Young Archaeologists club.

Lessons from Our Ancestors is the first book to come out from author Raksha Dave. If you love a good nonfiction book, then you are sure to enjoy this work! You too can dive into the past with this informative and comprehensive book that goes over all of the forgotten histories as well as stories that have not been adequately represented.

Here you can go into the Ancient World, the place that you’ve never witnessed before and encounter the children and the women who painted the oldest cave art in the world, the black pharaohs who have been forgotten from the history of ancient Egypt, the Indus civilization, which worked to build a city that was sustainable, female warriors in ancient China who led battles, peaceful Viking traders, African engineers who built the greatest medieval world city, and more.

Raksha Dave takes readers on a journey that they won’t soon forget! This is a great book for those who are seven years of age or up. Filled with beautiful illustrations from Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong, this is a wonderful book that is both educational and aesthetically intriguing. Read on your own or with kids to learn more and have a fun time doing it!