The Triumph of Time is a profound and personal meditation on the way we think of history, and how radical new methods of unearthing the past are constantly transforming our perceptions of time, history and our own place in the historical landscape. Archaeologist Richard Morris traces an epic human story over many thousands of years - from the arrival of man in Europe, to Custer's Last Stand; from a mysterious Dark Age economy, to the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust - demonstrating, along the way, the irresistible pull of history on the imagination, and how archaeology has been used to confirm and debunk mythologies of race, religion, nationalism and human progress. The Nazis, for instance, used it to underpin their mythology of racial superiority, whereas modern DNA matching has finally shown that we all come from the same beginnings. The Triumph of Time is a revelation; a rich, absorbing book that asks important questions about the past and how we respond to it, and dares the reader to take the very long view of human progress and show humility in the face of time.