Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Scarre, Christopher.,Fagan, Brian M. & Brian M. Fagan [Chris Scarre]

The Great Age of Athens In a famous speech recorded (or invented) by Thucydides, the Athenian leader Pericles called Athens the “school of Hellas.” It is certainly true that the ...
( Category: Sociology July 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Bryant, Edwin;

10 Aryans in the Archaeological Record The Evidence outside the Subcontinent The previous chapters have outlined the assumptions underlying the linguistic evidence that is generally accepted as decisive in eliminating ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations July 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:Laird Scranton

16 CORRELATING REGIONAL KINGSHIPS AT 3000 BCE In our outlook on the roots of pharaonic rule in Egypt, the establishment of dynastic kingship served as a finalizing stage in the ...
( Category: Prehistory July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:J. Douglas Kenyon

HALTON ARP’S UNIVERSE In Arp’s cosmology, a large component of redshift means age, not velocity. The higher the redshift, the younger the galaxy or quasar. Galaxies that have no excess ...
( Category: New Thought July 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carole Hillenbrand

CHAPTER SIX Aspects of Life in the Levant in the Crusading Period Peace was not, however, the favourite subject of the Muslim historians – nor perhaps of any historian.1 (Gabrieli) ...
( Category: Islam July 18,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

1. According to Strabo (xii. 8. 21), Tantalus, Pelops, and Niobe were Phrygians; and he quotes Demetrius of Scepsis, and also Callisthenes (xiv. 5. 28), as saying that the family ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 4,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Hermes Trismegistus

Trithemius: "When the ternary has at last returned to itself it may, by an inner disposition and great delight, ascend from the earth to heaven, thereby receiving both superior and ...
( Category: Mysticism June 11,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Moller, Violet [Moller, Violet]

* The setting for Umberto Eco’s classic novel, The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery which explores the intellectual world of a fourteenth-century monastery. SIX Salerno Tum medicinali tantum ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-24 | Author:Charles River Editors

Lady Charlotte Guest At the same time that true antiquarians like Lady Charlotte Guest were working hard to find the authentic remnants of the Celtic past, others sought to bolster ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-09-28 | Author:Holman, Katherine [Holman, Katherine]

MERCIA, VIKINGS IN. Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the English Midlands, which rose to prominence in the eighth century under its king, Offa (757–796). The territorial boundaries of this kingdom appear to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-04-16 | Author:de Benoist, Alain

( Category: Instruction June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-07-28 | Author:Bonwick, James [Bonwick, James]

SERPENT FAITH. No country in Europe is so associated with the Serpent as Ireland, and none has so many myths and legends connected with the same. As that creature has ...
( Category: Druidism June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Hans-Peter Ph.D., Hasenfratz

5 The Powers The religious human being finds himself or herself confronted with a multitude of powers, which are often experienced as individual entities embodied in a particular form. These ...
( Category: Paganism June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Ross, Anne [Ross, Anne]

The Book of Invasions The Book of Invasions is an ancient chronicle purporting to give the origins of the Irish people, and known as Lebor Gabála Érenn (‘the Book of ...
( Category: Druidism June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-11 | Author:Moffat, Alistair [Moffat, Alistair]

Few of the institutions of the Lordship survived in any recognizable form, except one surprising legacy that surfaced in Skye in the 1580s, although the likelihood is that it was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )