Ancient Civilizations
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Anya Seton

Jenny slept that night in a big bed with Dorothy. The bedroom had been the Abbot’s lodging in the old monastery, her hostess explained, and Jenny had never seen anything ...
( Category: Biographical October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-14 | Author:Georg Ebers [Ebers, Georg]

Katuti had taken quite a new interest in Paaker since she had heard of his procuring the philter. No other young man of the rank to which they belonged, would ...
( Category: Egypt October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...
( Category: Rome October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Brian Thornton [Thornton, Brian]

50 MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy ( A.D. 32–69) When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too ...
( Category: Mesopotamia October 1,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Moffat, Alistair [Moffat, Alistair]

* * * What Have the Romans Ever Done? There are few more distinguished historians of Wales than John Davies and his excellent one-volume history has no peers. Generously, he ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-21 | Author:Bowersock, G.W.

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: Judaism September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:B.h. Liddell Hart

Following up Syphax, Lælius and Masinissa arrived in Massylia (Masinissa’s hereditary kingdom from which he had been driven) after a fifteen days’ march, and there expelled the garrisons left by ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Michael Rank [Rank, Michael]

Chapter 7 The Ancient Pueblo peoples (1200 B.C.): The Ancient Rock Climbers of the American Southwest In 1539, Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was named governor of the kingdom ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Rohrbacher

The bureaucracy With the exception of the army, the Roman empire had always operated with a surprisingly small number of government employees by modern standards. Tax collection and the erection ...
( Category: Rome September 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry [Cunliffe, Barry]

The region between the Seine–Marne and the Rhine was, according to Caesar, occupied by Belgae, who differed from the Celts. They were the toughest of all the inhabitants of Gaul, ...
( Category: Celtic August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Scullard, H. H. [H. H. Scullard]

2. THE THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR The consul P. Licinius Crassus landed on the Illyrian coast near Apollonia, where he had some 37,000 men, many of whom were recruits. The officers ...
( Category: Rome August 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Whitelam, Keith W.

The indigenous culture, it seems, was incapable of such national awareness or the formation of written traditions. The paradox of trying to represent the Davidic monarchy as both unique and ...
( Category: Judaism August 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Reza Aslan

PART III Blow a trumpet in Zion; raise a shout on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, ...
( Category: Christology August 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Herodotus & Carolyn Dewald & Robin Waterfield

It was the conjunction of all these events that made the Argives afraid. Under these circumstances they decided to make use of the enemy’s crier—that is, to copy the Lacedaemonians ...
( Category: Greece August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Jeff Champion [Champion, Jeff]

Crab Apple – Malus sylvestris ‘When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian’s nose looks red ...
( Category: Greece July 25,2014 )