Ancient history

This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics, ranging across material culture, the mindset of its people, and social and economic factors.

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit.

Explores the formation of power during secondary polity formation by integrating multifaceted ceramic and material analyses of Gordion.

Ab Band 13 erscheint die renommierte Buchreihe des Mediävistischen Instituts der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz bei Walter de Gruyter.

Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding.

Presents an up-to-date overview of the new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC.

This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures.

Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess.

This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the "e;war cry"e;; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars.

The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795.

Published in the year 2006, Lost Pharaohs is a valuable contrubution to the field of History.

How ancient Egyptians understood quantum theory *; Investigates the history of how modern religion and the Age of Science were inspired by the sacred science of the ancients *; Examines how quantum theory explains that the cosmos arises from consciousness *; Reveals the unanimity between Schwaller de Lubicz's ';sacred science' and the science of a cosmos governed by quantum mechanics Since the dawn of the Age of Science humankind has been engaged in a methodical quest to understand the cosmos.

The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whereby over the course of a few hundred years -roughly between the second and the fifth centuries A.

This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition, and examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture.

Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek emigres to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done.

Uses embedded letters to illuminate two vexed questions, the origins of Plautine comedy and the mode of Plautus'' translation.

This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c.

This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved during the classical period.

The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity.

Explores the history of spelling in Latin to reveal that sophisticated education in literacy was not restricted to the elite.

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

The question of how to conceptualize the role of technological innovations is of crucial importance for understanding the mechanisms and rhythms of long-term cultural change in prehistoric and early historic societies.

Argues that Juvenal actively concealed his own authorship from his Satires in response to a dangerous political climate.

First Published in 2004.

The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer's Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC.

The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thought from Thales of Miletus to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds.

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments.

Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime.

Wer war der vierte Evangelist?

The word 'archaic' derives from the Greek arkhaios, which in turn is related to the word arche, meaning 'principle', 'origin', or 'cause'; the notion of ecstasy, or ekstasis, implies standing outside or beyond oneself, a self-transcendence.

Julius Caesar and the Transformation of the Roman Republic provides an accessible introduction to Caesar's life and public career.

This book is a definitive architectural study of Roman theatre architecture.

The Origins of Ancient Vietnam explores the origins of civilization in the Red River Delta of Vietnam and how related studies can inform our understanding of ancient societies, generally, and the foundations of Vietnamese culture, specifically.