While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period.
While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period.
Der weltberühmten Totenmaske des Tutanchamun und den prunkvollen königlichen Gräbern von Ur ist ein faszinierendes Detail gemeinsam: Sie sind allesamt reich verziert mit tiefblauem Lapislazuli.
Als die siegreichen kaiserlichen Truppen des Lucius Verus aus dem harten Partherkrieg nach Rom zurückkehrten, brachten sie eine tödliche Beute mit, die das mächtigste Imperium der Antike an den Rand der vollkommenen Vernichtung treiben sollte.
Weit vor den sumerischen Keilschriften oder den ägyptischen Hieroglyphen existierte auf dem europäischen Kontinent ein äußerst komplexes Zeichensystem.
Attempting to bypass earlier and present discussions about Romanization, identity, and globalization, this e-book confronts the issue of cultural elite integration in the early Roman Empire in a new way by focussing on prestige language as a connecting factor in a Eurasian context.
Der Triumph stellt fur die romische Gesellschaft einen zentralen Ort der Selbstauslegung, der Inszenierung von Macht sowie der Formierung des kollektiven Gedachtnisses dar.
While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few will have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history.
Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome.
On March 15, 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times on the floor of the Theatre of Pompey by men who called themselves liberators - many of whom he had pardoned, promoted, or considered friends.
Dieses Buch erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte des Pharaos Echnaton und seiner Gemahlin Nofretete, die das alte Ägypten mit einer radikalen religiösen Revolution erschütterten.
Unter den Trümmern des antiken Palastes von Phaistos auf Kreta fanden Archäologen einen Gegenstand, der bis heute den Verstand der brillantesten Linguisten und Kryptologen der Welt verhöhnt.
Unser Verständnis der menschlichen Zivilisation basiert auf einer festen Regel: Erst erfanden wir den Ackerbau, wurden sesshaft und bauten dann Tempel.
In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy.
The ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic position on maritime trade routes, its status further bolstered by its proud independence in an era of great kings, and its cultural successes and heritage celebrated by contemporaries as well as later writers.
The ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic position on maritime trade routes, its status further bolstered by its proud independence in an era of great kings, and its cultural successes and heritage celebrated by contemporaries as well as later writers.
The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "e;On the Agrarian Law"e; I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the second to the people.
This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods.
The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle American, and Andean.
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the development of Thebes as documented by archaeological and historical evidence and the literary tradition.
This work is the first volume of two that will be the full report of major excavations carried out by Dumbarton Oaks and the Istanbul Archaeological Museum at Sarachane in the heart of ancient Constantinople.
"e;In the Greek romances,"e; writes David Konstan, "e;sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male.
