Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2001-07-18 | Author:Francis Pryor [Pryor, Francis]

FIG 15 Plan of Bronze Age fields revealed by air photography at West Deeping, near Maxey. Barrows are shown in bold line I don’t want to give the impression that ...
( Category: Prehistory July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Mark Adams [Adams, Mark]

CHAPTER TWENTY Triangulating Pythagoras Plato’s Academy, Athens (ca. 360 BC) If Christos Doumas was correct, the Atlantis tale was solely a literary invention, like the Cave of the Ideas, created ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries July 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

Marius [1] [1] Γαΐου Μαρίου τρίτον οὐκ ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν ὄνομα, καθάπερ οὐδὲ Κοΐντου Σερτωρίου τοῦ κατασχόντος Ἰβηρίαν οὐδὲ Λευκίου Μομμίου τοῦ Κόρινθον ἑλόντος· ὁ γὰρ Ἀχαϊκὸς τούτῳ γε τῆς πράξεως ...
( Category: Rome July 9,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-29 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]

sands of his own precious troops (hence the term Pyrrhic victory). Rome's allies stood firm. Even with mercenaries (and the riches of the Greek cities would have allowed him to ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture July 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

IV SCIPIO now began to march towards the great, rich city of Carthage. He captured a number of towns and a great deal of treasure. In a few weeks, however, ...
( Category: Rome June 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...
( Category: Great Britain June 21,2015 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

* * * Dear Lucias, I have just heard this strange story which I think might interest you. In Athens there used to be a large and beautiful house which ...
( Category: Greece June 21,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-04 | Author:Deary, Terry [Deary, Terry]

AD 37 Cruel Tiberius dies. Romans are happy – little do they know the next emperor, Caligula, will be much, much worse! He lasts four years before they murder him. ...
( Category: Rome June 21,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & 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: Native American June 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sellars, John [John Sellars]

We can schematize this process as follows: For the cosmos to develop all of its myriad forms, all four of the elements are required. Yet if the fire out of ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

AD 69 XXV. YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Legion versus legion “A year … which well nigh brought the commonwealth to an end.” TACITUS, Histories, I, 11 From the moment ...
( Category: Christianity June 14,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:David Keys [Keys, David]

The East Asian region seems to have continued to endure climatic problems and famine for several years. Mainland sources cite problems in China between 535 and 538 (see Chapter 19), ...
( Category: Weather June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Czachesz, Istvan

Crossing the Boundaries From the examples discussed in this chapter, we can conclude that the main thrust of previous scholarship, focusing on the “polymorphy of Christ,” did not do justice ...
( Category: Christianity June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-30 | Author:Dick Teresi [Teresi, Dick]

8 Technology: Machines as a Measure of Man Mesopotamia Mesoamerica Africa India China Notes 1 A History of Science: Rediscovered 2 Mathematics: The Language of Science 3 Astronomy: Sky Watchers ...
( Category: Mayan June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1876-01-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

XII TO SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS YOU tell me in your letter that you are extremely alarmed by a dream; apprehending that it forebodes some ill success to you in the case ...
( Category: Rome June 12,2015 )