A brilliantly entertaining account of antiquity’s most fascinating long-forgotten and undiscovered stories perfectly captured in all their deeply human relevance by best-selling author, Dr Theodore Papakostas

What unites the conspirators of Caesar, the Smurfs, and the ancient world? Did Hercules experience body-shaming and why? What prompted Minoan women to start walking around bare-chested on the island of Crete? Did Ancient Athens have haunted houses and Ghostbusters? (Spoiler alert: it did!). What do an illegal love story in Ancient Sparta, and a donkey that enjoyed good wine, have in common?

A taxi is stuck in a terrible traffic jam in downtown Athens. Inside it are five perfect strangers: an intellectually curious driver, a good-humoured archaeologist,—both middle-aged—, a feisty extroverted woman and her introverted sister-in-law, both in their late 60s, and a smart yet aloof teenage girl. What starts as a day in hell, slowly transforms into a life-changing journey across the centuries, in which heroes and rascals, gods, demigods, humans and animals partake in dazzling, heart-warming stories that reconnect all five passengers, and by extension us, to the ancient past and our shared humanity.

A dazzling kaleidoscope of colourful stories united by the thread of love in all its forms, Archaeology My Love...Get Me Out of Here shows us not only how marvellous humanity has always been, but also how marvellous we still are.