Ancient Civilizations
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-01 | Author:Alice Roberts
Gordion and the Galatians In the first century BC, our old friend, Strabo, wrote: There is also among [the Celts] the barbaric and highly unusual custom (practised most of all ...
( Category:
Europe
November 28,2017 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-08-01 | Author:Richard Stoneman
CHAPTER SIX Invasion (II): The Wooden Walls The daring Greeks deride the martial shew And heap their vallies with the gaudy foe. Th’insulted sea with humbler thoughts he gains, A ...
( Category:
Historical
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-22 | Author:Matt Clayton [Clayton, Matt]
Chapter 8 — Ramesses the Great All of Egyptian history seemed to lead up to the great Ozymandias—Ramesses II (c1303–1213 BC). Everything which came after him did not measure up ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-14 | Author:David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce [Lewis-Williams, David & Pearce, David]
CHAPTER 7 The Mound in the Dark Grove The ‘mound’ in the title of this chapter recalls the Near Eastern ‘tells’ (Arabic for a hillock or mound) of mudand stone-built ...
( Category:
Religious Studies
November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-10 | Author:Roger Green [Green, Roger Lancelyn]
Se-Osiris and the Sealed Letter Many tales were told in Ancient Egypt of Setna, the son of Rameses the Great, who was the wisest of all scribes, and who found ...
( Category:
Classics
November 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:David W. McCullough
Near Hannover, Germany, a seventeenth-century octagonal puzzle maze still exists in remarkably good condition in the Herrenhausen Gardens. Nearly seventy-five feet across, it was built soon after 1666 and rebuilt ...
( Category:
World
November 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]
When this response was reported, all the Achaeans rejoiced, especially the Sicyonians, who, changing at once from grief to festivity, donned garlands and white garments in order to bring the ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dimitra Papagianni
A modern human skull found at Qafzeh, Israel, dated to around 100,000 years ago. Researchers were surprised to discover that the first modern humans reached northern Israel, and probably the ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 21,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-02 | Author:Kyle Harper [Harper, Kyle]
NEAR TO ANNIHILATING THE HUMAN RACE Procopius and John—each was quintessentially a man of the Justinianic age. Yet they were representatives of entirely different cultural worlds that had come to ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:David Nicolle [Nicolle, David]
Chapter 13 The Ottomans Survive The defeat of Sultan Bayezit I by Timur-i Lenk (Tamerlane) in 1402 could have spelled the end of the Ottoman state, but the fact that ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-17 | Author:Matthew Kneale
Rome, 1849 CHAPTER SIX FRENCH I THESE DAYS THE QUIRINAL PALACE in the heart of Rome is a busy place. Tall uniformed Corazziere – the personal guards of the president ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 17,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:David C. Lindberg
THE RELATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY AFTER 1277 The condemnations are important as benchmarks in the gradual assimilation of Aristotelian philosophy by medieval Christendom. They reveal the strength of conservative ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
November 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:G.W. Bowersock
7 THE ETHIOPIAN INVASION OF 525 If Cosmas can be trusted in reporting that he was present at Adulis twenty-five years before he was writing, he was there in 523 ...
( Category:
Middle East
November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-01 | Author:Garth Fowden [Fowden, Garth]
5 EXEGETICAL CULTURES 1 ARISTOTELIANISM Above all the Greeks is the wise Porphyry held in honour, the master of all sciences, after the likeness of the godhead. In all fields ...
( Category:
Judaism
November 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-06 | Author:Diego De Landa
Verbi gratia. The Indians say that the Spaniards finally reached the city of Mérida in the year of Our Lord’s birth 1541, which was exactly at the first year of ...
( Category:
Americas
November 14,2017 )
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