Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Anthony Everitt [Everitt, Anthony]

As soon as the ships were completed, they were launched and the crews went aboard for some “real-life” practice. Under the command of a consul-admiral, they then set sail for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Mattingly, David J.;

* * * This chapter retains its essential character from its original publication (Mattingly 1997c), where it formed one half of a paired discussion with Susan Alcock. It can survive ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 31,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-25 | Author:Mike Parker Pearson [Pearson, Mike Parker]

( Category: Europe March 30,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Gabriele Boccaccini [Boccaccini, Gabriele]

At this point, the compiler felt compelled to integrate the text from the Book of Noah by adding a few sentences to Enoch's speech. "After that there shall occur still ...
( Category: History March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Jacob Abbott [Abbott, Jacob]

The Siege of Tyre. Effects of the storm. Not long after this the sea itself came to the aid of the Tyrians. There was a storm; and, as a consequence ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 30,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Hyun Jin Kim [Kim, Hyun Jin]

NOTES 1 Croke (1981), 167. 2 Priscus, fr. 9.1, Blockley (1983), 235. 3 Priscus, fr. 2; 9.3, Blockley (1983), 227, 238 4 Marcellinus Comes, Croke (1995), 19. 5 Theophanes Chron. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 29,2018 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:David W. Anthony [Anthony, David W.]

Figure 12.12 Konstantinovka settlement on the lower Don, with topographic location and artifacts. Plain pots are Maikop-like; cord-impressed pots are local. Loom-weights and asymmetrical flint points also are Maikop-like. Lower ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 29,2018 )
epub |zho | 2016-12-19 | Author:Carey, Brian Todd & Joshua B. Allfree & John Cairns [Carey, Brian Todd]

Looking down from a hilltop above the Hungarian encampment, Batu and his officer corps surveyed the terrain. On the right of the Christian position were the marshes of the Tisza, ...
( Category: Military March 29,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-04-02 | Author:Zecharia Sitchin [Sitchin, Zecharia]

10 THE CROSS ON THE HORIZON About sixty years after the Israelites’ Exodus, highly unusual religious developments took place in Egypt. Some scholars view those developments as an attempt to ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 27,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Thucydides

656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Davis, Harold T. [Davis, Harold T.]

11. The Spiral of Archimedes. Perhaps the most amazing result of all these astonishing achievements of Archimedes, however, was his investigation of the properties of spirals, which he later published ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1893-03-25 | Author:Xenophon & Morgan, M. H. (Morris Hicky), 1859-1910

VARRO. This extract is taken from the " Res Rusticae," 2, 7, 5. The book was written in 37 b. c, when the author was eighty years of age. The ...
( Category: World March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Theony Condos

Perseus The Constellations 22 It is said that this constellation was placed among the stars because of Perseus's fame. Zeus came to Danae in the form of golden rain and ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Hans-Peter 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: Occult & Paranormal March 24,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Trevor Bryce

Environmental factors and new tribal groups Environmental factors also played an important role in shaping Babylonia’s development in this period. One in particular is worth noting. As the second millennium ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 22,2018 )