Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2014-03-23 | Author:Cline, Eric H. [Cline, Eric H.]

Pylos At Pylos, the destruction of the palace, originally thought by the excavator to date to ca. 1200 BC, is now usually dated to about 1180 BC, for the same ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 10,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Gary Jennings

I H S S. C. C. M. Santificada, Cesárea, Católica Majestad, el Emperador Don Carlos, nuestro Señor Rey: Real y Temible Majestad, nuestro Rey Supremo: desde esta Ciudad de México, ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Bob Curran [Curran, Bob]

Political Presence By now the figure of “Prester John” was becoming something of a political one. Desperate to gain and maintain a presence in the turbulent East, the Western Church ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Gerard Helferich

It was December in the Sierra de las Minas. The rains had ended and with them the cool season known in Guatemala as el invierno, “winter.” The heat had resurged, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 9,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-02 | Author:Auerbach, Patrick [Auerbach, Patrick]

Another unsavory friend of the Templars was Reynald de Chatillon, the Prince of Antioch. After being involved with King Louis in the Second Crusade, Reynald stayed behind and struck up ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson [Hanson, Victor Davis]

with transverse (ear-to-ear) crest. This deviation from the normal front-to-back crest of Greek helmets and analogy with the transverse crests of Roman centurions would indicate an officer.95 A peculiar, excessively ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference September 6,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Price, T. Douglas

Figure 7.9. The villages of Vorbasse. The numbered areas 1–7b mark the movement of the village between 100 BC and AD 1100. 8 = the modern village of Vorbasse. The ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Philip Matyszak

ARMINIUS BOUDICCA JOSEPHUS DECEBALUS Pax Romana With the victory of Augustus at Actium, Rome’s government entered a new phase. Democratic elections for Rome’s top magistracies continued, but the results were ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Judith Herrin

17 Imperial Children, ‘Born in the Purple’ In 1044, the Byzantines protested against Constantine IX’s mistress, Maria Skleraina, and demanded to see the real empresses. ‘We don’t want the Skleraina ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:H J Haskell [Haskell, H J]

CHAPTER VIII THE REPUBLIC COULDN’T STAND PROSPERITY IT was under the Republic that Rome marched farthest, although its expansion continued into the second century after Christ. When Cæsar came into ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 5,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

PERIODIC DESTRUCTIONS According to the Hopi of Arizona: The first world was destroyed, as a punishment for human misdemeanors, by an all-consuming fire that came from above and below. The ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-13 | Author:Robert L. O'Connell [O’Connell, Robert L.]

[5] As the sun rose on Tuesday, the second day in August, the scarlet tunic signifying battle could be seen displayed above the tent of Terentius Varro, whose turn it ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1790-09-04 | Author:Hammurabi [Hammurabi]

A more serious difficulty is, that, as it was customary to apply the same honorific titles to both a god and the king, it is often uncertain to which the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Homer & Pope, Alexander & Alexander Pope [Homer]

"Meantime the goddess our return survey'd From the pale ghosts and hell's tremendous shade. Swift she descends: a train of nymphs divine Bear the rich viands and the generous wine: ...
( Category: Poetry September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gmirkin, Russell E.; [Russell E. Gmirkin]

Bibliography Allen, Danielle S., The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Alster, Bendt, The Instructions of Suruppak. Copenhagen Studies in ...
( Category: World September 4,2017 )