Ancient history

This history of Ancient Greek warfare vividly chronicles the struggle for control of the Macedonian Empire, a fateful time of change in the Ancient World.

The biography of a 1st century Imperial Roman officer whose colorful life and remarkable career spans many of the era's major events.

A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire.

Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years War.

"e;Practically all new information on the greatest empire of all and how it controlled and policed its frontiers.

The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory.

The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms.

The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms.

This book is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights.

"e;The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work.

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.

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds.

What does the Rosetta Stone tell us about the past?

What really marked the end of the Roman Empire?

From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination.

She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

A fresh look at the World Heritage Site that includes Avebury henge, West Kennet long barrow and Silbury Hill.

This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour and being forced to kill himself.

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt is the product of narrow-minded visions of the pastDrawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished.

'A stunning, clear-sighted history of ancient Egypt' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John RomerThis exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settled, spread and created a rich, vivid, strange civilization that had its first culmination in the pharaoh Khufu building the Great Pyramid.

Now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11 16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning.

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception.

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions.

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study.

A military history of the campaigns of Flavius Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian.

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements).

"e;Not just worthwhile for its analysis of the battle, but also for its coverage on Marcus Licinius Crassus' long career and the rise of the Parthian Empire.

The epic story of how Greece repelled Persia's massive forces in some of the most momentous battles of the ancient world.

An ancient historian vividly reconstructs-and persuasively reassesses-the Roman Empire's most significant victory of the Gallic Wars.

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements).

This military biography chronicles the dramatic life of the Ancient Greek ruler whose name became synonymous with self-defeating victory.

The author of For the Glory of Rome details the conflicts ancient Rome endured to defeat its neighbors and take over the Italian Peninsula.

It has been one of those days.

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Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history.

Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history.

Corrstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is a highly important Bronze Age site.

Corrstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is a highly important Bronze Age site.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner examines how specific types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near East.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner examines how specific types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near East.

This beautifully-presented book chronicles the coming and going of these peoples, their kings, heroes and saints, and way of life.

Toledo, former capital of Spain until 1560, is now one of the most monumental of Spanish cities.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte einer der prächtigsten Epochen des Alten Ägyptens – die 18.

This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education.

This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education.

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled.

In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands.

In history, this grand arterial 1500-mile waterway was always seen as the natural frontier between the northern provinces of the Iranian empires and the outer Turanian lands.