Ancient Civilizations
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Postgate, Nicholas [Postgate, Nicholas]

The merchants will also have profited, but their role is best illustrated by moving back in time about a century, and downstream to Larsa, shortly after its incorporation into the ...
( Category: Mesopotamia February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Bishop

Humour Ages Well Getting older is definitely not a limiting factor when it comes to stand-up comedy. You just have to keep going. The American comedian George Burns was often ...
( Category: Actor & Entertainer Biographies February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Patrick Alan Kent

The diplomatic situation in 279 There were diplomatic contacts between the Romans and Pyrrhus following the battle of Ausculum, which had ended in another victory for Pyrrhus. Plutarch, Appian, and ...
( Category: Rome February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-12-01 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

Chapter 10 – Tour of the Greatest Inca Sights The environment of the area that used to be the ancient Inca Empire is truly spectacular. If you take a road ...
( Category: Incan February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Audrey Nelson, Ph.D.

As mentioned in Chapter 6, the Persians, under Cyrus the Great (ruling 560-530 B.C.E.), conquered the Lydian Empire of Croesus (ruling 560-546 B.C.E.) and subjugated the Ionian Greek city-states (already ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 13,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-12-12 | Author:Lesley Adkins [Adkins, Lesley]

Thirteen: An Irish Intruder A whole month of digging at Nineveh produced only a few fragments of sculpture and cuneiform inscriptions, and so Layard decided to return to Nimrud, employing ...
( Category: Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Andrew Eames [EAMES, ANDREW]

HUBBLE-BUBBLE ON THE TOROS EKSPRESI In her 1928 journey Agatha Christie experienced a life-enhancing moment of great beauty on the descent of the Taurus Express from Konya to Adana. The ...
( Category: European February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shafer-Elliott, Cynthia

Bottero’s assessment of bread-baking techniques in ancient Mesopotamia is worthy of note; however, McQuitty and van der Steen do not mention whether or not the bread was leavened. Perhaps Bottero’s ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation February 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Stephen Wright

Eight SHE CAME TO IN dark water, clawing for air and a strange silver surface rippling far, too far, away. The weight of an ocean pressed down across her, cold ...
( Category: Mayan January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Nelson

CHAPTER FIVE Justice, Equality, and Institutions IF WHAT I HAVE CALLED the “theodicy challenge” is compelling, then we have good reason to question the coherence of the luck egalitarian project. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pryke, Louise M.;

Ninsun Ninsun, like Enkidu, is a powerful character in her own right. While perhaps best known for her role as the hero’s mother in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun is ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 20,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Moss, Candida R.; Baden, Joel S.; [Moss, Candida R.; Baden, Joel S.;]

4 THE MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ON A SWELTERING AFTERNOON IN JUNE 2015, WE TRAVELED TO Washington, D.C., to tour the Museum of the Bible construction site and meet with ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:J. C. McKeown [McKeown, J. C.]

The rise of Christianity did very little to curb slavery. Even St. Augustine, in the 5th century, thought it acceptable for slaves to be obtained by kidnapping, provided the kidnapping ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Robinson, Andrew; [Robinson, Andrew;]

Champollion wondered if his new alphabet, derived from much later Graeco-Roman inscriptions, might apply to this set of purely Egyptian inscriptions. The last two signs were familiar to him, having ...
( Category: Handwriting January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Duplouy, Alain; Brock, Roger W.; & Roger W. Brock

2. Ancient Citizenship They managed these things very differently in the ancient Graeco-Roman world—or rather, since in this case ‘Greece’ and ‘Rome’ are very different from each other, in the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 19,2020 )