Ancient Civilizations
azw3 |eng | 2019-07-28 | Author:Brian R. Doak [Doak, Brian R.]

Tyre Tyre was one of the leading Phoenician ports during the Persian period, surpassed in importance only by Sidon. Located south of Sidon on the mainland and two small offshore ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Armstrong

The old bridge across the Forth at Drip replaced the ford here and has in its turn been rendered obsolete by road development. (author’s photo) Deliberations of the Scots The ...
( Category: Military March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:Keith Harvey

Map The story Map of London Also available
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Sawyer, Ralph [Sawyer, Ralph]

12 Postsuppression Measures T he historical vestiges that depict the second conquest convey a sense that rather than simply resolving internal strife or engaging in a civil war, a “world ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kirch, Patrick Vinton

THE “TRADITIONAL” ATOLL SOCIETIES Although most of the best-known Polynesian societies are situated on high, volcanic islands, there are also nearly one hundred atolls dispersed over a wide sector of ...
( Category: Prehistory March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-04 | Author:Vornholt, Brad & Tyreman, Christopher [Vornholt, Brad]

The facts of history having been forgotten by most people, many Catholic writers have used planetary week terminology (i.e., “Saturday”), which could be considered deceptive. It is also likely that ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 1988-03-05 | Author:Hans J. Nissen [Nissen, Hans J.]

( Category: Archaeology March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 1957-07-15 | Author:Milton Munitz

* * * From an English translation of Cosmotheoros under the title, The Celestial Worlds Discovered or Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets, ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Carr [John Carr]

Both armies [writes Anna Komnene] were afraid and put off the moment of conflict, the Romans because they trembled before the overwhelming numbers of the [Pechenegs], the enemy because they ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jack Goldstein

Technology Roman houses (or at least those belonging to the richest citizens) had their own form of central heating; the floors of the buildings were raised off the ground by ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-04 | Author:Michael Hudson [Hudson, Michael]

Expropriation of cultivators from the land Once debtor-cultivators or captured and enslaved populations faced the prospect of losing their land irreversibly, they were liable to flee. Some banded together to ...
( Category: Credit Ratings & Repair March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James M. Russell [James M. Russell]

The Roman glass in this decorative cup from 400 AD is dichroic, meaning that the glass shines different colours according to the angle of the light. In modern manufacture this ...
( Category: Engineering March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Wyke, Maria

FIGURE 26. Paul Newman as Brutus, in You Are There’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” (8 March 1953). © CBS News Archive. The CBS network, even in its studio-based opening ...
( Category: Theater March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Raffaele D'Amato [Raffaele D'Amato]

This detail shows the trilobate pommel of the gladius; note also the heavy ring, clearly carved on the third finger of Minucius’ left hand. (Author’s photo, courtesy Civic Museum, Padua) ...
( Category: Engineering March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:John O'Neill

Chapter Fourteen Margherita Guarducci Epigraphy is the study of ancient inscriptions. There are few more subtle and difficult subspecialties of archeology. The locations of the ancient inscriptions are often dark, ...
( Category: Popes & the Vatican March 5,2020 )