Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2000-04-08 | Author:Joel W. Palka

P PALENQUE. Palenque is one of the most beautiful and architecturally spectacular of the Classic Maya sites in the southern lowlands. Palenque is located near the foothills of the Chiapas ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bronwen Riley [Riley, Bronwen]

CHANGING FASHIONS The fullers will have been hard at work in the run-up to Julius Severus’s appearance in town, as local dignitaries prepare their outfits for the visit. The British ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Evans [Richard Evans]

Chronology 410 Border disputes between Segesta and Selinous (Diod. 13.43.1) Segesta requests aid from Carthage (Diod. 13.44.4) 409 Hannibal attacks and destroys Selinous (Diod. 13.57.6) Himera destroyed by the Carthaginians ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Evans [Richard Evans]

Ita multorum mensium labor hostium perfidia et vi tempestatis puncto temporis interiithostes. Thus the work of many months perished in an instant because of the treachery of the enemy and ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Green, Peter;

. . . Eurybiades called for suggestions, from anyone who wished to speak, on the most suitable place for engaging the enemy fleet: this, he said, would have to be ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:E. A. Wallis Budge

IV.—Terra-cotta Devil-trap, with a magical spiral inscription in Hebrew letters containing a spell which was intended to protect its owner from all evil spirits and the Evil Eye. (British Museum.) ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal April 8,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-24 | Author:Hugh Bowden [Bowden, Hugh]

Chapter 5 Pharaoh: Alexander and Egypt Alexander entered Egypt late in 332, facing no opposition from the inhabitants or from the Persian satrap Mazaces, who had too few soldiers to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Xenophon

Chapter 7 THE GREEKS CATCH SIGHT OF THE SEA NEXT came a five days’ march of ninety miles into the country of the Taochi, and here provisions began to run ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carlo Rovelli

SCIENCE CANNOT BE REDUCED TO VERIFIABLE PREDICTIONS To be sure, we can find reliability in science despite these uncertainties. Newton’s theory is not less valuable after Einstein. Anyone who needs ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1994-04-08 | Author:Fantham, Elaine; Foley, Helene Peet; Kampen, Natalie Boymel

Figure 7.4. A large engraved bronze container, the Ficoroni cista, dates to fourth-century B.C.E. Rome but was found in a tomb in Palestrina, a nearby town. It is one of ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-08 | Author:Dossey, Leslie;

CATHOLIC “CIRCUMCELLIONS”? The circumcellions have generally been considered a peculiarly Donatist phenomenon,78 and the most provocative sermons discussed above were by the Donatist Escorial preacher. The contrast between Donatists and ...
( Category: Africa April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Hodgson

Military Religion The religious beliefs and concerns discussed in the previous chapter continued to be to the fore for the Romans manning the Wall, and indeed, for the civilian communities ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John France

WAR in the second half of the nineteenth century was transformed by two interacting forces – the French Revolution with its ideas of nationalism and democracy, and the huge surge ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Simcha Jacobovici

14 THE VILLAIN We have seen that the main political player in the Galilee during Jesus’ entire life was a man named Herod Antipas. We have also seen that Jesus ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matthew B. Roller [Matthew B. Roller]

5. IMPERIAL AUTHORITY AND GIFT GIVING It is well known, and massively documented, that the emperor had at his disposal an enormous quantity of goods and services, of every variety ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )