Ancient Civilizations
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Erich von Daniken [Daniken, Erich von]

Today the seaman knows that his goal exists (unlike the prehistoric discoverer); he knows where it lies and on what route it is to be found. The original Polynesians lacked ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:L. Sprague De Camp

THE LATER ROMAN ENGINEERS SEVEN In the final century of the Republic, Rome expanded swiftly, gobbling up all the other nations of the Inner Sea. At the same time the ...
( Category: Mysticism March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Lucretius

BOOK V COSMOS AND CIVILIZATION Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hornblower, Simon

Figure 14.1 The temple of Artemis, Ephesus Figure 14.2 The temple of Athena (reconstructed) at Priene THE EFFECTS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR Figure 14.3 Labraunda: general view well as socially ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:J.C. McKeown [McKeown, J.C.]

The Athenians do not allow the populace as a whole to be the target of criticism in comedy, whereas they encourage attacks on individuals. They are well aware that a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Stuart Laycock

CHAPTER 6 The Last of Rome Whatever may or may not have happened in 367-369, the account by Ammianus of the so-called ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’ is significant in another way. It ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Berresford Ellis [Ellis, Peter Berresford]

The Vedas and Upanishads show that the Hindu year was indeed divided into two halves in a fashion analogous to the Celtic year. The Vedic references, such as the Bhadaranyaka, ...
( Category: Europe March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

https://twitter. com/permedjat http://www.facebook. com/groups/per. medjat - http://www.facebook. com/per. medjat SLAVES AND WORKERS 129 nian Olympias brought with her to the marriage a female slave named Stolis and her infant son ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-06-11 | Author:Tom Holland [Holland, Tom]

Clearing the Decks The notion that any man had only to clap his hands to have a canal dug, a bridge built or a whole continent summoned teeming into arms ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela D. Toler [D. Toler, Pamela]

The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople in 1453. Engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593-1650) On the morning of May 29, three hours before dawn, the Ottomans began an all-out attack ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...
( Category: Greece March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

49. Artist’s impression of the ‘cosmic’ Great Pyramid superimposing the star Sirius over the position of the ‘gate’ in the Sirius star-shaft. Was the Horus-King, then, somehow meant to find ...
( Category: Egypt March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Thomas Asbridge [Asbridge, Thomas]

Hiatus The coming of winter in December 1189 brought a further lull in the siege. Faced with roughening seas and lacking access to the safety of Acre’s inner harbour, the ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-19 | Author:Philip Matyszak

Peace talks Whilst Sulla delicately fenced with the envoys of Archelaus on talks about talks, Fimbria took his army into Asia Minor and, by damaging Mithridates there, improved Sulla’s negotiating ...
( Category: Rome March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Thommen, Lukas [Thommen, Lukas]

2 Jashemski 1979, 172ff., 233ff.; 1998. 3 Grimal 1969, 107ff.; Frass 2006, 428ff. Chapter 16 Animals For the Romans, too, keeping animals was of basic economic and social importance. Under ...
( Category: Human Geography March 26,2014 )