Ancient history

The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination.

'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since.

A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'.

The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes.

When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders.

With the recent success of 'Rome' on BBC2, no one will look at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light.

Nic Fields draws on detailed knowledge of available sources and his own visits to the battlefield to set the battle within the context of its political situation and religious impact upon history.

How should we interpret the Bible in light of the latest biblical research and archaeology?

Socrates urges us to examine our lives, but what exactly does that mean?

An attempt at a new story of our emergence from the violence of the ancient cities.

In The Lost Gold Chain of Machu Picchu, Gary Swagart provides a logical explanation for the establishment of Machu Picchu, its abandonment after being occupied for several centuries, the manner in which the rocks could have been fitted into the walls of Machu Picchu and Cuzco as they were, and the way the large rocks were moved and placed by the Incas and Pre-Incas.

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.

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption.

Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders.

The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples.

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points.

In this engaging history, Daniel J.

Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (17981839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

Libraries of the ancient world have long held a place in the public imagination.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

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In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

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The Triangle of Trade in the Cradle of Civilization interestingly presents Mesopotamia as the supermarket of the ancient world.

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Barbara Hantman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, with a Master's Degree in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University.

This book is a culmination of that research.

CELEBRITY is a book about the changing perceptions of societies at different periods of Indian history for evaluating and acclaiming outstanding achievements presented in the public domain.

The world is on the threshold of a great new industrial revolution, a 1 scientific-industrial revolution.

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For anyone who has ever wondered whether they have lived before, the story of Hori,an Ancient Egyptian priest who lived some 3,500 years ago in Ancient Egypt, at Karnak,Thebes, is inspiring.

Brightfire covers important events during and after the reign of King Raedwald of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, East Anglia, UK, and is set mainly in and around his homestead nearby, with some scenes set in Northumbria and elsewhere.

The conflict between the material side of human existence and that of our spiritual and philosophical beliefs is as old as humanity itselfbut one side of the equation is as important as the other and no society can hope to sustain its existence without an equitable balance between the two.

A first hand report of how The US Mail Service really worked for over a century.

In Search of George Washington (The Story of the 28th Amendment) chronicles the amazing flashback that was the "e;Prairie Fire"e; that swept the country over 18 months in 2012 and 2013.

The first set of articles in this collection is concerned with the nature of the bishop's authority in the Early Church and the sources from which it was drawn.

Significant interest has always existed about the origin of Classic Greek culture, but despite the long-standing attention, scholars continue to disagree on where this amazing civilization got its start.

Mytholical absolute spellbinding Vampiles is the vimpire Harry Potter a epic story that readers just can't put down from gore to love this novel is the new and old phase of vampires.

Finally the Sphinx speaks about the Pyramids message secrets.

Los datos que este libro contiene son unarecopilacin de muchos aos, abrumadores dela milenaria expresin cultural de nuestrosancestros precuauhtmicos y sus propiosancestros.

Koumeterium Messolonghi es el Valle de las Luces, donde pragmatiza toda lesa mal herencia de no saber obrar con humildad o soberbia todas las vidas descursadas, el estmulo romntico que roza el infinitesimal contacto de estmulo Teomesolongui, de la mano que toca nuestra vida, del Dios Universal entumecido, meciendo nuestros sentidos a la luz de las luces de la casta Humana.

A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republics earliest days.

Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples' efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond.

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The Shaping of the Celtic World traces the rise and decline of the great Celtic peoples.

What began with a basic curiosity of an adoptee about his biological origins, became a genetic exploration into history when he discovered two of his identifying y-chromosome markers created a rare, but traceable, combination which appeared in supporting data of multiple research papers.

What follows in the pages of this book are questions that most people will ask when they read of the ancient past.

Reprint of a classic work of ancient military history Traces the origins of Sparta's unique training, tactics, and organization that made it the master of Greek battlefields Clear analysis of battles such as Thermopylae, Plataea, Mantinea, and Leuktra Spartan warriors continue to influence modern militaries, including the U.