Ancient Civilizations
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Manco, Jean [Manco, Jean]

71 Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul. The southern part of the lands of the Gauls had been taken by the Romans before Caesar’s day. As governor of Cisalpine Gaul and Gallia ...
( Category: Archaeology June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Aldhouse-Green, Miranda & Howell, Ray [Aldhouse-Green, Miranda]

Religious life When the Romans occupied Britain, they brought with them both the ‘iconographic habit’ and the ‘epigraphic habit’, along with the tradition of venerating the supernatural forces in sacred ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Ellis, Peter Berresford [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: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 1998-10-28 | Author:Flanagan, Laurence [Flanagan, Laurence]

9.1Excavated and ‘investigated’ court tombs: the distribution of human evidence: (1) no bone; (2) bone unidentified; (3) bone partly identified; (4) unburnt bone The fact that no bone was discovered ...
( Category: Prehistory June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-17 | Author:Carruthers, Bob [Carruthers, Bob]

Archbishop Stigand from the Bayeux Tapestry [A.D. 1052. And went so to the Isle of Wight, and there took all the ships which could be of any service, and hostages, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Clarkson, Tim [Clarkson, Tim]

The Synod of Whitby The year of the battle of Lutho-feirnn saw an event of huge religious significance whose repercussions were felt across every part of northern Britain. This was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-09 | Author:Peterson, Gary Dean [Peterson, Gary Dean]

24 The Swedish People of the Viking Age We have traced the lineage of the kings of the Svear, Gauts and other peoples who eventually became the nation of Sweden ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Manco, Jean [Manco, Jean]

Now the disease in Byzantium ran a course of four months, and its greatest virulence lasted about three. And at first the deaths were a little more than the normal, ...
( Category: Prehistory June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Brazier, Julian [Brazier, Julian]

Chapter 11 ‘Some of you believe that we should have attacked the Vikings on the beaches, but they were already ashore in strength and we were strung out in a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Harding, Dennis W. [Harding, Dennis W.]

Despite the evidence of radiocarbon dates, which somewhat erratically endorse a pre-Roman dating for the site at Long Knowe in Eskdale (Mercer, 1981b), it is worth recalling that here too ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-01 | Author:Speidel, Michael P. [Speidel, Michael P.]

Leipzig of J.E.Schlegel's play Hermann failed to overwhelm Goethe, "notwithstanding the many animal skins." In the mid-eighteenth century the Flemish artist Peter Anton Verschaffelt sculpted a hooded wolf-warrior as the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 6,2019 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Sailing June 6,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Alan Segal [Segal, Alan F.]

( Category: Theology June 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh George Rawlinson

AUTHORITIES. Justin and Strabo, among ancient writers, are of the most importance. The works of Messrs. E. R. Bevan and Vincent Smith are the principal modern authorities. The writers on ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Rosewell

Artist’s impression of the Wenlock Priory laver. Flavouring was limited to salt or vinegars in case richly flavoured foods induced sluggishness and distracted monks from prayer and work. Although red ...
( Category: Catholicism May 28,2019 )