Ancient history

The Lost Scrolls of The Methods of the Sima offers a disciplined interpretive examination of what is absent from one of early China's most institutional approaches to warfare.

"e;The epic story of how humanity has always learned, taught and imagined its future.

Migration is the story of us all.

In 1700, a Roman citizen transported through time would have recognized the world around them.

The Assyrian Empire was one of the most powerful and formidable civilizations of the ancient world, dominating the Near East through military strength, advanced administration, and cultural achievements.

A person from Kochi is Tosa before they are Shikoku.

The Peloponnesian War stands as one of the most defining conflicts of the ancient world, a brutal and complex struggle between two of Greece's greatest powers: Athens and Sparta.

Firing the Cloud: How Humanity Survived and Accelerated is a sweeping, provocative journey through 15,000 years of human history, tracing how we evolved from small, fire-lit bands of hunter-gatherers to a globally networked civilisation living inside a digital cloud.

Before the pyramids, before the first kings, before history was written—there was a world in motion.

Before empires rose, there were cities—fragile, expanding, and alive with the first experiments in power.

Across the vast sweep of human history, civilizations have risen to extraordinary heights—only to fracture, transform, and fade into the landscape they once dominated.

What if the wisdom of the ancients - their myths, symbols and sky-bound stories - was more than metaphor?

Here it is, ready to paste:What if the greatest scientific revolution in human history almost never happened — saved at the last moment by scholars working across three continents and a thousand years?

How did ordinary Roman families survive in one of history's greatest empires?

This morning you checked your phone.

Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars' attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.

Intellectual shifts in the late 20th century led to profound change in the questions that could be asked about the ancient world; the chapters in this volume are inspired by the way these shifts have affected scholars' attitude towards and use of Athenian oratory in the study of social history.

A person born in 1900 entered a world of horse-drawn carriages, candlelight, and telegraphs.

In 225 BCE, a Carthaginian naval commander sailed north past the Tin Islands of Britain into waters no Mediterranean captain had charted.

This book attempts something that the destruction of 146 BCE made permanently difficult: a comprehensive account of Carthaginian civilization from its Phoenician origins to its Roman afterlife, grounded in the available evidence and honest about its limits.

Shadow of the Revolution is a powerful historical drama inspired by true events surrounding the iconic photograph of Che Guevara.

What does it take to invent an empire, and make the world believe in it?

Every nation has a founding story.

Lady of the Purple: The Life, Reign, and Death of the Emperor ElagabalusIn 218 CE, a fourteen-year-old Syrian priest was proclaimed emperor of Rome at sunrise before an assembled legion, wearing the jeweled robes of his hereditary solar cult rather than the armor of a Roman general.

Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of ancient Egypt, remains one of history's most fascinating and powerful women.

In this second volume, we delve into the lives of two figures as complex as they are intriguing from the Julio-Claudian dynasty: Tiberius, the solitary successor of Augustus, and Caligula, the young emperor whose name evokes extravagance and scandal.

Alexander the Great remains one of the most extraordinary figures in world history.

MASTERS OF WAR: HANNIBAL BARCAThis comprehensive examination of Hannibal Barca offers an in-depth analysis of one of history's most brilliant military commanders, whose audacious campaigns against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) remain studied at military academies worldwide over two millennia later.

The Black Death: The Reshaper of Europe The worst catastrophe in European history.

The Byzantine Empire was not merely the survival of Rome in the East—it was a civilization that reshaped the medieval world.

Masters of War: Julius CaesarJulius Caesar stands as one of history's most studied and debated military commanders, a general whose campaigns shaped the course of Western civilization and whose methods continue to influence military thinking two millennia after his death.

The Sun Engine is a sweeping journey through time, energy, and existence, exploring how the Sun powers life, drives civilisation, and shapes the very fabric of the cosmos.

The assemblage of Roman footwear from Vindolanda is one of the most extraordinary and unique groups of archaeological objects from anywhere in the Roman Empire.

This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius' 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification of the Gospels in the style of Vergil's Aeneid, one that was well known and much admired throughout Europe for the better part of a millennium.

This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius' 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification of the Gospels in the style of Vergil's Aeneid, one that was well known and much admired throughout Europe for the better part of a millennium.

This book presents critical studies of modern reconfigurations of conceptions of the past, of the 'classical', and of national heritage.

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women explores how ancient tragedy illuminates contemporary political crises through a psychoanalytic lens.

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women explores how ancient tragedy illuminates contemporary political crises through a psychoanalytic lens.

Ancient Egyptian Rejuvenation is the series title for The Channeled Beauty Journals of Hathor.

From Cleopatra's gilded barge to the age of Instagram, Mythologies of Fame unravels how humanity has built, worshiped, and destroyed its idols for more than two thousand years.