| The first fossil hunters: paleontology in Greek and Roman times A Mayor Princeton University Press, 2000 | 648* | 2000 |
| Gods and robots: Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology A Mayor Princeton University Press, 2018 | 360 | 2018 |
| The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world A Mayor Princeton University Press, 2014 | 343 | 2014 |
| Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World A Mayor Princeton University Press, 2022 | 337 | 2022 |
| The Poison King: the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy A Mayor Princeton University Press, 2009 | 266 | 2009 |
| Fossil legends of the first Americans A Mayor Fossil Legends of the First Americans, 2013 | 237 | 2013 |
| Making sense of nonsense inscriptions associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian vases A Mayor, J Colarusso, D Saunders Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens …, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| The folklore of footprints in stone: from classical antiquity to the present A Mayor, WAS Sarjeant Taylor & Francis Group 8 (2), 143-163, 2001 | 85 | 2001 |
| The Nessus shirt in the new world: smallpox blankets in history and legend A Mayor journal of American Folklore, 54-77, 1995 | 65 | 1995 |
| A history of ideas in ichnology A Baucon, E Bordy, T Brustur, LA Buatois, T Cunningham, C De, C Duffin, ... Developments in sedimentology 64, 3-43, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| The folklore of dinosaur trackways in China: Impact on Paleontology L Xing, A Mayor, Y Chen, JD Harris, ME Burns Ichnos 18 (4), 213-220, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Griffins and Arimaspeans A Mayor, M Heaney Folklore 104 (1-2), 40-66, 1993 | 36 | 1993 |
| Dirty tricks in ancient warfare A Mayor Quarterly Journal of Military History 2, 1997 | 33 | 1997 |
| Mad honey! A Mayor Archaeology 48 (6), 32-40, 1995 | 33 | 1995 |
| Geomythology A Mayor Academic Press, 2005 | 32 | 2005 |
| Place names describing fossils in oral traditions A Mayor Geological Society, London, Special Publications 273 (1), 245-261, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Greek fire A Mayor The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| Suppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge: From Claverack, New York, 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005 A Mayor Agnotology: The making and unmaking of ignorance, 163-182, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Animals in Warfare A Mayor The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life, 282-293, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Ancient references to the fossils from the land of Pythagoras N Solounias, A Mayor Earth Sciences History 23 (2), 283-296, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
