Ancient Civilizations
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]

HERE COULD HAVE BEEN FEW BACKDROPS MORE CONDUCIVE TO intellectual creativity than the great city of Alexandria. Founded by Alexander in 332 BC, Alexandria flourished as the major port of ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-06 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

The Power of Diversity Where did the power and wealth to establish and maintain this full-fledged kingdom come from? What development in the northern hill country led to the emergence ...
( Category: Old Testament February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Mazar, Amihai [Finkelstein, Israel]

Yet, the question remains, is this great epic historically reliable? What if David and Solomon were, as some scholars now contend, purely legendary characters with no more historical substance than ...
( Category: Old Testament February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Ahmed Osman

14 THE TOMB OF AKHENATEN ALTHOUGH not a shred of evidence has been found to confirm the date of Akhenaten’s death, Egyptologists have assumed that it must have taken place ...
( Category: Egypt February 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Caesar, Julius [Caesar, Julius]

1:72. Caesar had conceived hopes of ending the affair without an engagement, or without striking a blow, because he had cut off the enemy’s supplies. Why should he hazard the ...
( Category: Rome February 13,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Thucydides

BOOK V CHAPTER XV Tenth Year of the War—Death of Cleon and Brasidas—Peace of Nicias The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games. ...
( Category: Greece February 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Francis Pryor

I well recall the first time I saw the Orkney Islands. I was on that trawler I wrote about in Chapter 5, and we were steaming north towards the Pentland ...
( Category: Prehistory February 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Daniel Meyerson [Meyerson, Daniel]

AS 1900 APPROACHED, THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BROUGHT Carter a great surprise. The excellence of his work for the last five years had been noted by Gaston Maspero, director ...
( Category: Great Britain February 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...
( Category: General February 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Daniel Hernandez

10 | Negotiating Saints Absorbing the beat at a sonidero in Tepito. (Photo by Livia Radwanski.) It is an overcast Sunday afternoon in the bleak D.F. suburb of Tultitlán, where ...
( Category: Sociology February 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-22 | Author:E.M. Berens [Berens, E.M.]

CONSUS. Consus was the god of secret counsel. The Romans believed that when an idea developed itself spontaneously within the mind of an individual, it was Consus who had prompted ...
( Category: Greece February 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-27 | Author:James Patterson & Martin Dugard [PATTERSON, JAMES]

Chapter 46 Egyptian Desert 1324 BC “HOLD!” YELLED HOREMHEB, the low timbre of his powerful voice cutting through the dry desert air. The highly trained Egyptian forces halted abruptly. Tut ...
( Category: Egypt February 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-06-19 | Author:Sally Grainger

1 round sweet ripe melon such as Galia, honeydew, etc. generous freshly ground black pepper 2 tsp dried mint or 3 tsp of fresh chopped pennyroyal or culinary mint 2 ...
( Category: Italian January 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Kim O'Brien

Fourteen Ty Steele drew his pistol and threw open the door to the Eat and Go. He spotted the suspect immediately, a cloaked dark figure crouching over the prone body ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth January 29,2015 )