Ancient
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Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology,
$43.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the remarkable history of Mesopotamia, then keep reading…
Seven captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Myt
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481791
- Language: English
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Cinematic Storytelling
$30.95 Add to cartWhat the industry’s most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium.
- Author: Van Sijll, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 193290705X
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Gaul
$12.00 Add to cartBetween 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insight… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 1983
- ISBN10: 0140444335
- Language: English
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
$22.95 Add to cartThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories–from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,- Author: Hansen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691195927
- Language: English
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End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
$26.99 Add to cartHistory remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his path. Following Attila and the Huns from the steppes
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338495
- Language: English
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The Ancient Celts
$34.99 Add to cartFierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. F… [more below]
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198752938
- Language: English
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
$49.92 Add to cartA riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new c- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691153434
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos IV: The Dark Age of Greece
$33.99 Add to cartThe Dark Age of Greece is the latest entry in the Ages in Chaos series first put forth by the late Immanuel Velikovsky in 1952; and is one more key brick in the reconstruction of ancient history propo
- Series: Ages in Chaos #IV
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1906833192
- Language: English
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Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
$26.95 Add to cartWorshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypt’s gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated by the n
- Author: Wilkinson, Richard H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0500284245
- Language: English
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics
$11.95 Read moreClear, easy-to-follow text tells absolute beginners how to transcribe hieroglyphs by presenting and explaining 134 phonetic elements. Included are an explanatory introduction, section on word analysis… [more below]
- Series: Egypt
- Author: Rossini, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486260135
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
$20.00 Add to cartTrue Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.
This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after bein- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250846722
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
$27.95 Add to cartMining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the… [more below]
- Author: Bayley, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585090700
- Language: English
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Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews–A History
$23.99 Add to cart“Carroll, whose love for the Catholic Church . . . is not only matched by a lovingly critical eye. . . but an urgent plea that Rome set another course.” — Boston Globe
In this bold and moving book sur
- Author: Carroll, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0618219080
- Language: English
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
$30.00 Read moreSince the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next–a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform–borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought ove
- Author: Crawford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324037040
- Language: English
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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities
$18.00 Read moreA portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274165
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
$100.00 Add to cartThe first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Edward Gibbon… [more below]- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1902
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423087
- Language: English
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By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
$23.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he i… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Worthington, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614641
- Language: English
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The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
$18.99 Add to cartFrom classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes–and the saga … [more below]
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1501198025
- Language: English
