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Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings by Gyles Iannone
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Gyles Iannone

The Violent Termination at Cancuen The most dramatic evidence of the Cancuen termination ritual comes from excavation of the southern palace cistern of the site (figure 7.6). A beautiful plaster-lined ...
( Category: Maya June 13,2023 )
Slavery in the Roman Empire by R.H. Barrow;
epub |eng | 2022-07-02 | Author:R.H. Barrow;

CHAPTER V IN THE SERVICE OF STATE AND TOWN Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum. Vergil, Georgics, i v. 3. Tu quoque, legiferis mundum complexa triumphis, Foedere communi vivere cuneta facis. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 13,2023 )
For the Glory of Rome by For the Glory of Rome. A History of Warriors & Warfare (2007)
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:For the Glory of Rome. A History of Warriors & Warfare (2007) [Retail]

Sergius was not deterred by missing hands or numerous wounds: On four occasions he fought with his left hand alone, and two horses were killed under him. He had a ...
( Category: Rome June 13,2023 )
In Defense of Civilization by Michael R.J. Bonner
epub |eng | 2023-02-24 | Author:Michael R.J. Bonner

1 Gardner, A., Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford University Press, London, 1973, p. 4. 2 Ritner, R. K., ‘Egyptian Writing’ in Daniels, ...
( Category: Greece June 13,2023 )
Divine Institutions by Padilla Peralta Dan-el;
epub |eng | 2020-08-25 | Author:Padilla Peralta, Dan-el;

1. The entwinement of chorality, mimesis, and civic institutions in Plato’s Laws: Folch 2016. 2. Philodemus De piet. 27–28, with Lightfoot 2002, 216–17. 3. Philodemus De piet. 26: τοῖς νόμοις ...
( Category: Rome June 13,2023 )
The Legacy of Rome by Simon Elliott;
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Elliott;

This set a precedent for wise emperors to follow, with, for example, Septimius Severus initially making his AD 193 ‘Year of the Five Emperors’ rival Clodius Albinus (the British governor) ...
( Category: Rome June 13,2023 )
Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya by Walter R. T. Witschey
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Walter R. T. Witschey [Witschey, Walter R. T.]

( Category: Maya June 13,2023 )
Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats by K. M. Dobney & D. Jaques & Cluny Johnstone
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:K. M. Dobney & D. Jaques & Cluny Johnstone

FIG. 7.50 Sheep tibia–distal breadth (BFd) and distal depth (Dd) measurements (by phase). Domestic fowl and the possible presence of capons The vast quantity of chicken remains recovered from Flixborough ...
( Category: Celtic June 13,2023 )
Circuits of Metal Value by Toby C. Wilkinson;Susan Sherratt;
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Toby C. Wilkinson;Susan Sherratt;

Chapter 5 The development of ironworking in the 12th and 11th centuries in Cyprus Joanna Palermo The iron industry in Cyprus was virtually non-existent until 1200 BC when the number ...
( Category: Greece June 13,2023 )
Egyptomania--Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs by Bob Brier
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Bob Brier

How to Move a Very Large Rock This ingenious solution created another problem to be solved. How do you slide a 250-ton obelisk into a ship? Gorringe would also have ...
( Category: Egypt June 13,2023 )
The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies by Christopher Faraone;Sofia Torallas Tovar;
epub |eng | 2022-09-18 | Author:Christopher Faraone;Sofia Torallas Tovar;

( Category: Egypt June 13,2023 )
Conquistadors and Aztecs by Stefan Rinke;
epub, pdf |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Stefan Rinke;

According to Durán, the Mexica responded to Cuauhtemoc’s invocation of the glorious past with great enthusiasm. However, the ruler had not bothered to provide the city with enough food to ...
( Category: Aztec June 13,2023 )
The Spartan Army by J. F. Lazenby
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:J. F. Lazenby

CHAPTER 5 Plataea Following the forcing of the Thermopylai pass, and the withdrawal of the Greek fleet from Artemision, all central Greece lay open to the invading Persians. The Greek ...
( Category: Greece June 13,2023 )
Soldiers and Ghosts by J. E. Lendon
epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:J. E. Lendon [Lendon, J. E.]

Jerusalem during the Roman Siege (AD 70) Now the legions came up, and Titus ordered them to camp around the city: the Tenth—not Caesar’s old Tenth, now called X Gemina, ...
( Category: Greece June 13,2023 )
The Greeks and the Rational by Josiah Ober
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Josiah Ober

6.6 LEGISLATION Socrates of Plato’s Protagoras takes the policy-making procedure of the Athenian assembly as exemplary of the practice of the “wise Athenians” in attending to experts in those technical ...
( Category: Greece June 13,2023 )

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