Ancient Civilizations

MEDITATION The Ancient Egyptian Path to Enlightenment Many people do not know about the rich history of meditation practice in Ancient Egypt. This volume ou...

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change fro...

surveying Greek History And Civilization, This Examines Such Topics As The Minoans And Mycenaeans, City-states, Wars With Persia, Imperial Athens, Alexander...

History with the nasty parts left in! The Rotten Romans follows life for folks in Roman Britain from Nasty Nero and other awful emperors, to Brave Boudicca ...

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Six easy-to-use pre-cut stencils of a tiger, elephant, monkey, lion, giraffe, and bear provide youngsters with hours of creative fun at home, in school. Use...

Based on a landmark BBC2 series, The Rise and Fall of Rome follows a fast-paced, plot-driven narrative, focusing on the pivotal moments in Roman history, an...

Come to know the house of the Virgin Mary which, according to numberless saints, scores of popes, and many official documents of the Vatican (and to protec...

In graphic novel format, presents three stories from Greek mythology. including tales about Jason and the Argonauts, Icarus and Daedulus, and the ten labors...

This Third Edition Of 'the Trial And Death Of Socrates' Presents G. M. A. Grube's Distinguished Translations, As Revised By John Cooper For 'plato, Complete...

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical...

Many People Take Math In High School And Promptly Forget Much Of It. But Math Plays A Part In All Of Our Lives All Of The Time, Whether We Know It Or Not. I...

Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning work...

Traces The Destruction Of Pompeii And The Rediscovery Of This Ancient City. The Hunt For Treasures -- Life In Pompeii -- Earning A Living -- The Role Of Wom...

Tells Beginners How To Transcribe Hieroglyphs By Presenting And Explaining 134 Phonetic Elements. Included Are An Explanatory Introduction, Section On Word ...

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The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that i...

One Of The World' S Foremost Military Historians Offers A Sweeping View Of The Place Of Warfare In Civilization. Probing The Meanings, Motivations, And Meth...

Looks At The History Of The Rise Of Christianity As Experienced By The Adherents Of The Traditional Religions Of The Ancient World Who Directly Experienced ...

The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told—and experienced—by ul...

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Be...

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version featuring wide margins for notes and reflections to enhance your stu...

Caracalla' Has One Of The Worst Reputations Of Any Roman Emperor. Many Ancient Historians Were Very Hostile And Edward Gibbon Later Dubbed Him The Common En...

New York Times Bestseller The Creator Of The Award-winning Podcast Series The History Of Rome And Revolutions Brings To Life The Bloody Battles, Political M...

King Ramses II distinguished himself as a warrior, builder of magnificent monuments, and model for rulers to follow. Nothing will bring his life and times i...

From Prehistoric Mexico To Modern Istanbul, Mary Beard Looks Beyond The Familiar Canon Of Western Imagery To Explore The History Of Art, Religion, And Human...

Dealing With A Time When Followers Of Jesus Were Moving Toward Separation From The Movement's Jewish Origins, This Volume Of A People's History Of Christian...

In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand year...

Part of the Reacting to the Past series, The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods in the human ...

In 480 B.C., a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae to march on Greece, intending to conquer the...

A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.Gold Medal Winner, 201...

With over 300 full-color photographs, this is the first fully illustrated book devoted to Christian houses of worship in Egypt. The text incorporates the la...

The Roman Forum Was In Many Ways The Heart Of The Roman Empire. Today, The Forum Exists In A Fragmentary State, Having Been Destroyed And Plundered By Barba...

The fast-paced and "engrossing account" (The New York Times Book Review) of "one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history" (The Christian Sci...

discourses On Livy (1531) Demonstrates Machiavelli's Fundamental Preference For The Republicanism Of Ancient Rome. In An Age When Political Absolutism Was...

Conflict And Contradiction In The Imagery Of The Dying Republic -- Rival Images: Octavian, Antony, And The Struggle For Sole Power -- The Great Turning Poin...

An English translation of the French work La Religion Grecque considers how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in ancient Greece. Th...

This book examines the place of the Middle Ages in modern popular culture, exploring the roots of the stereotypes that appear in films, on television and ...

Contains A Study Of Ancient Egypt, Greece, And Rome From 3200 B.c. To 600 A.d. And Discusses The Art, Architecture, Philosophy, Literature, And Religious Pr...

What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden...

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Ker...

Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman - and indeed one of the most famous people - ever to have lived. In this biography, Adrian Goldsworthy tel...

Examines The History, Art, Architecture, Languages, Literatures, Society, And Religion Of Biblical Israel And Early Judaism And Christianity. In The Beginni...

David Rohl continues his quest to reach the historical kernel lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems and mysteries of Old World histor...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

Imagine breaking into an ancient tomb, marked with the seal of an Egyptian king who died three thousand years ago. A treasure trove of precious artifacts li...

An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have ...

For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal contex...