Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Robert Bauval & Ahmed Osman [Bauval, Robert & Osman, Ahmed]

Figure 5.13. General Mohammad Naguib, first President of Egypt, 1953–1954 (photo courtesy Al-Ahram) Now with the British support he had once enjoyed being totally neutralized, Farouk asked the United States ...
( Category: Egypt February 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Ahmed Osman [Osman, Ahmed]

25 Jerusalem, City of Peace It has been suggested—wrongly, I believe—that the name Jerusalem appeared in Egyptian records as early as the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries B.C. at the time ...
( Category: New Testament February 2,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

The road that Gallus chose to lead his soldiers along dipped five hundred feet into a valley beyond Gaba, then swung to the right. There were two villages in the ...
( Category: Christianity January 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-10 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]

25 WHAT’S IN A NAME? PLATO’S CRATYLUS In this book I’ve been emphasizing that Plato dealt with nearly all the topics philosophers have thought about ever since. I suppose even ...
( Category: Rome January 27,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

In Piso’s absence, Antony proposed to the Senate “that the body should not have a private or dishonorable interment,” on the grounds that this might “further exasperate the people.”² More ...
( Category: Rome January 26,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

Three separate plots to kill Caligula were now in existence. Conceived by leading men of the state, they had been in the works for many months. Two plots had been ...
( Category: Rome January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Philip Matyszak & Lindsay Powell [Matyszak, Philip and Powell, Lindsay]

certainly, there were found hidden in the floor and in the walls disinterred remains of human bodies, incantations and spells, and the name of Germanicus inscribed on leaden tablets, half-burnt ...
( Category: Rome January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Laird Scranton [Scranton, Laird]

With those points in mind, we now are ready to consider the nummo fish drawing and how it might represent processes related to the perception of waves. Beginning at the ...
( Category: Mystery January 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Laird Scranton [Laird Scranton]

As mentioned above, the Egyptian name for the goddess Neith is Net, which can be written hieroglyphically in many different forms. We can only assume that if Neith in one ...
( Category: Christianity January 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Michael Baigent [Baigent, Michael]

Ishtar was the third deity in the astral triad. She was considered, by Ashurbanipal’s reign, to be the daughter (and firstborn) of Sin, the moon; twin sister to Shamash, the ...
( Category: Astrology January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Stephen Dando-Collins]

This plan was put to Piso, who approved it. Pledging himself to marry Antonia, daughter of Claudius, and to accept the throne when it was offered, Piso said that on ...
( Category: Rome January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Stephen Dando-Collins]

Marching north now, Caesar was determined to swiftly terminate this Egyptian war with a decisive victory here beside the Nile. In coming out to face him on the Delta, the ...
( Category: Rome January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Aidan Dodson [Aidan Dodson]

Fig. 124. The pyramid of Taharqa at Nuri (Nu1). In the background are the later pyramids of, from the left, Ameninatakilebte (Nu10), Amtalqa (Nu9), Aseplta (Nu8), Siaspiqa (Nu4), and Amaniastabarqa ...
( Category: Egypt January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pietikäinen, Petteri [Petteri Pietikainen]

Charcot’s fame did not rest on any ingenious theoretical treatises on hysteria, but on his case studies: he published over 120 richly illustrated case histories that fully revealed the drama ...
( Category: Egypt January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Roberts, Jennifer T. [Roberts, Jennifer T.]

Inevitably, Herodotus was somewhat prone to falling into generalization. It was easy for him to seize on individual details he had observed and extrapolate wildly. One can see him in ...
( Category: Greece January 10,2016 )