Ancient Civilizations

national Bestseller“a Triumph Of Popularization: Extraordinarily Knowledgeable, Informal In Tone, Amusing, Wide-ranging, Smartly Paced.” —the New York Time...

In The Beginning -- The Kings And Queens -- The Pyramids -- The Temples -- The Hieroglyphs -- The Gods And Goddesses -- Daily Life In Ancient Egypt -- The M...

Light On Stone Offers A Visit To The New Greek Galleries At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Since 1999 The Museum's Collection Of Classical Marble Sculpture...

origen Was The Most Influential Christian Theologian Before Augustine, The Founder Of Biblical Study As A Serious Discipline In The Christian Tradition, And...

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would...

This Classic Biography Was First Published Thirty Years Ago And Has Since Established Itself As The Standard Account Of Saint Augustine's Life And Teaching....

Mary Beard Is One Of The World's Best-known Classicists, An Academic With A Rare Gift For Communicating With A Wide Audience. Here, She Draws On Thirty Year...

Volume 1 Offers A Radical New Survey Of More Than A Thousand Years Of Religious Life In Rome, From The Foundation Of The City To Its Rise To World Empire An...

The new York Times Bestselling Author Of 1421 Offers Another Stunning Reappraisal Of History, Presenting Compelling New Evidence That Traces The Roots ...

Aspects of Greek History offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics. Chapter by chapter, the ...

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy. Do yo...

Road to Valouris the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatestcomeback in Tour de France history and, between his...

Appian ; Translated With An Introduction By John Carter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxxiv-xxxvi) And Index.Categories: Travel Europe Netherland...

Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity.Categories: Politics & Social Sci...

The Surprising And Compelling Story Of Two Rival Geniuses In An All-out Race To Decode One Of The World’s Most Famous Documents—the Rosetta Stone—and ...

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent ch...

Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an acc...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and po...

An Instant Best-seller When First Published In 1841, Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan By John Lloyd Stephens, With Illustrations...

The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the bas...

Romans And Non-romans -- Christian Influende In Late Antique Culture -- The Churches In The Sixth Century: The Council Of 553 -- The Achievement Of Gregory ...

A History Of Rome During The Reigns Of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian And Valens, By A Fourth Century Army Officer. Ammianus Marcellinus ; Selecte...

The household (domus) was the basic unit of Roman society. This sourcebook offers insight into the different and often conflicting roles and mores of house...

A curriculum guide to accompany The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, by Susan Wise Bauer. Susan Wise Bauer’s...

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, ...

Jennifer Roberts, of the City University of New York, and Tracy Barrett, author of historical fiction for young adults, bring together their respective ma...

Did The Ancient Egyptians Believe In Many Gods Or One God In Many Guises? The Key Lies In The Special Relationship Between The Sun God Ra And The King, In H...

The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organised, who participated? Were ancient sport...

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

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

Right Next To The Colosseum In Rome Stands The Arch Of Constantine. Completed Ad 312-315, It Was Built To Celebrate Ten Years Of The Emperor Constantine's R...

A secret buried for centuriesThrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind th...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

On best-seller lists nationwide: New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and the Washington Post. This compelling and exhaustively researched accou...

There is a war going on between the established scientific community and those who would explore new theories, realities, energy, and dynamics. J. Douglas K...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

The Great Biblical Flood Described In Genesis Has Long Been A Subject Of Fascination And Speculation. In The 19th Century The English Archbishop James Usshe...

The fabulous treasures of Tutankhamun have fascinated the public since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. Many books have been written about the boy...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Biographer Brings To Life The Most Intriguing Woman In The History Of The World: Cleopatra, The Last Queen Of Egypt. Though Her L...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

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...

new, Enlarged, And Comprehensively Revised Edition Of The Seminal Sourcebook On The Hellenistic Period. Categories: History Ancient CivilizationsGeneral ...

this Book Considers How Religious Beliefs And Cultic Rituals Were Given Expression In The World Of The Greek Citizen. Categories: Science & MathArchae...

The discoveries in Crete, Greece, and the Aegean islands that began a century ago were nothing less than stunning, and seemed to give shape and substance ...

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and incre...

A riveting, lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Helen of Troy. We think the way we do because ...

A brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this i...