Ancient history

Young children may not know what life was like before technology.

Enheduana: Princess, Priestess, Poetess offers the first comprehensive biography of Enheduana, daughter of Sargon of Agade and one of the most intriguing, yet elusive, women from antiquity.

Lucid and lyricala vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization.

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social-historical and literary-historical perspectives.

Ninety years ago, Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen's mummy lying, surrounded by grave goods, in a virtually intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

The gods have always looked out for the Middle Kingdom, and that's evident through the years of successes and failures.

A blast to the past could be what your child needs in order to fully comprehend the present and know what to expect in the future.

In this ancient history book for kids, you're going to learn about the Sumerians and the Akkadians.

Secularization and the Working Class brings together contributions from thirteen Central European historians who have taken a long-term interest in the issue of the secularization of modern society and social issues affecting the working class.

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Barrow.

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state.

From Labor to Reward is a pioneering, epic, and groundbreaking book that fills a huge void in American religious history, black religious history, and traditions of the black church.

George Rawlinson was born on 23rd November 1812 at Chadlington, Oxfordshire.

Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in the 5th century BC in what is now modern-day Bodrum in Turkey (then part of the vast Persian Empire).

George Rawlinson was born on 23rd November 1812 at Chadlington, Oxfordshire.

Egypt is one of the really mysterious and very interesting topics in the world of history.

Why should a child be bothered with the events of the past and the people who made them possible?

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Did aliens visit ancient civilizations?

When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria.

A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity an understudied research area within classical reception studies that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman world.

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.

In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history.

In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination.

These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama.

This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory.

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens.

In this original and rewarding combination of intellectual and political history, Ryan Balot offers a thorough historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed.

How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome?

A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possibleByzantium.

This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did?

The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions.

A compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman EmpireMachiavelli praised his military genius.

The definitive biography of the legendary "e;first citizen of Athens"e;Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world.

Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis.

A comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world's center, from its founding to its modern rediscoveryThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "e;omphalos"e;-the "e;center"e; or "e;navel"e;-of the ancient world for more than 1,000 years.

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "e;Introduction"e; or "e;Prolegomenon,"e; is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world.

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophyPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC.

Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy.

From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium-from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to late antiquity.

This book rethinks Plato's creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields.

Exploring Maya Ritual Caves offers a rare survey and explication of most of the known ancient Maya ritual caves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.

As far as the book itself goes, I loved it.

Herodotus's The Histories is the foundational work of Western historiography, a vast inquiry into the causes and consequences of the Greco-Persian Wars.

This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world.

This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era.

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography.