Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

A massive earthquake hit Syria and Lebanon in 1170, the effects of which would have been felt as far as Galilee. It is unclear precisely how much damage was dealt ...
( Category: History April 3,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-10-27 | Author:Gordon White [White, Gordon]

SUMERIA There is no question that the Sumerians, and specifically their origin, are downright weird. None other than Carl Sagan himself said that if any ancient culture had had contact ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Charles River Editors & Jesse Harasta [Harasta, Jesse]

Chapter 3: Evolution of the God “The lord of boundless revenues, Salute not him as happy: no, Call him the happy, who can use The bounty that the gods bestow, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Peter Crawford

Battle of Yarmuk, 636: Deployments. In order to prevent being outflanked by the sheer length of the Roman line, the Muslims deployed their forces in a similar manner. Yazid and ...
( Category: Europe April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Egger, Vernon O [Egger, Vernon O]

The Muslim West The Muslim lands bordering the western Mediterranean enjoyed a halcyon period during the second half of the tenth century. The eleventh century, on the other hand, witnessed ...
( Category: Middle East April 3,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Fernand Braudel [Braudel, Fernand]

The intractable problem of the Peoples of the Sea would—if this version of the Mycenaean drama is correct—become a lot clearer. This was a long-drawn-out episode, since the Egyptian records ...
( Category: Europe April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Egger, Vernon O. [Egger, Vernon O.]

The Muslim West The Muslim lands bordering the western Mediterranean enjoyed a halcyon period during the second half of the tenth century. The eleventh century, on the other hand, witnessed ...
( Category: Middle East April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Alberto Angela [Angela, Alberto]

The Praetorian The next morning, Marcus enters a shop; he needs a new tunic and is trying some on for size. They look like so many T-shirts that go down ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Upinder Singh [Singh, Upinder]

Later, Rama restrains Lakshmana when the latter announces that he will kill all the demons: “You must not slaughter all the rākṣasas of the earth on account of a single ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Schoch, Robert M., Ph.D. & Robert Bauval [Bauval, Robert]

GIULIO MAGLI, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AT MILANO POLITECNICO The OCT has been subjected to some quantitative astronomical and astrophysical verifications, in order to assess its compatibility with the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Plutarch

He begat children against Apollo’s wishes.96 When Marcus Gellius, who was thought to be the son of a slave, had read some letters to the Senate in a shrill, loud ...
( Category: Historical April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Roger D. Woodard [Woodard, Roger D.]

4.3 THE MAHVEDI To say that the fire which now lies at the eastern terminus of the axis formed by the Grhapatya and havanya is a “fourth flame” is only ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger M. Kean [Roger M. Kean]

Hadrian’s Administration The provinces benefited from Hadrian’s imperial perambulations, although in the first instance the cost of receiving the emperor and his “burdensome” retinue fell on the cities, colonies, and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-29 | Author:Philip Matyszak [Matyszak, Philip]

Resistance types and techniques On the other hand there are Maccabees, those Jewish peoples following the long Jewish tradition of resisting invaders (the Assyrians, Persians and Seleucids had similar problems ...
( Category: Military April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Gary Urton & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...
( Category: Americas March 31,2018 )