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The Shamans of Prehistory

By: Clottes, Jean,Lewis-Williams, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Publishers: October 1998

Seller ID: 456686

ISBN: 0810941821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This work reveals the authors' method of understanding the images painted or etched on rock walls by the people of prehistory. Noting the similarity between prehistoric rock art and that created by some contemporary traditional societies, archaeologists Jean Clottes and David Lewis-Williams suggest that the ancient images were created by shamans, powerful individuals who were able to contact the spirit world through trance and ritual.
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Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By: Cooney, Kara

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 483811

ISBN: 0307956776

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.

Hatshepsut--the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne--was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascended to the rank of pharaoh.

Shrewdly operating the levers of power ...
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Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists

By: Curtis, Gregory

Price: $5.00

Publisher: June 2017

Seller ID: 471043

ISBN: 1400078873

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain--the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.

Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago. He takes us through various theories--that the art was part of fertility or hunting rituals, or used for religious purposes, or was clan mythology--examining the ways interpretations have changed ove...
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East

By: Dalrymple, William

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 392602

ISBN: 0805061770

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong for...
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Tacitus: Histories Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

By: Damon,

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: January 2008

Seller ID: 443682

ISBN: 0521578221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As the first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, the Histories hold a crucial place in the study of Latin literature. Book I covers the beginning of the infamous "Year of the Four Emperors" (69 c.e.), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Its account of the ensuing power struggles is unmatched for detail and interest. This edition includes the Latin text and provides a complete commentary accessible to students of intermediate level as well as an extensive introduction discussing historical, literary and stylistic issu...
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Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

By: Dando-Collins, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wiley: February 2008

Seller ID: 466550

ISBN: 0470224533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This fourth book in Dando-Collins's definitive history of Rome's legions tells the story of Rome's 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry on the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the spread of Christianity throughout Europe.
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Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion

By: Dando-Collins, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wiley: August 2006

Seller ID: 465923

ISBN: 0470046384

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire-a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses-an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title ""Conqueror of B...
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Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

By: Dando-Collins, Stephen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Wiley: September 2004

Seller ID: 466560

ISBN: 0471686131

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada. More than a mere unit account, it incorporates the history of Rome and the Roman army at the height of their power and gory glory. Many military historians consider Caesar's legions the world's most efficient infantry before the arrival of gunpowder. This book shows why. Written in readable, popular ...
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A History of Ancient Greece (Overture)

By: Demand, Nancy

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages: January 1996

Seller ID: 458526

ISBN: 0070162077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This work provides a concise history of Ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to Alexander the Great. Focusing on the interpretation of ancient sources, both written and visual, the text contains current scholarship and a balance of political, social, cultural and military history.
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Battles of the Ancient World 1285 BC - AD 451: From Kadesh to Catalaunian Field

By: DeVries, Kelly et al

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Metro Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 460932

ISBN: 143513270X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ramessess II: Greatest of the Pharaohs (Discoveries Series)

By: Discoveries

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 399641

ISBN: 0810928701

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way.
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The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion

By: Doresse, Jean

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mjf Books: August 1997

Seller ID: 466318

ISBN: 1567312276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.
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A Brief History of the Druids (Brief Histories S)

By: Ellis, Peter Berresford

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Robinson Publishing: March 2002

Seller ID: 452300

ISBN: 1841194689

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through evidence and, with reference to the latest archaeological findings and the use of etymology, shows that the Druids have been subject to a swaythe of propaganda and myth-making through the centuries.
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Pompeii The Day a City Died

By: Etienne, Robert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2013

Seller ID: 57296

ISBN: 0810928558

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History)

By: Europe/Cahill, Thomas

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Nan A. Talese: October 2003

Seller ID: 443027

ISBN: 0385495536

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philoso...
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Seventy Great Inventions Of The Ancient World

By: Fagan, Brian M.

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 388962

ISBN: 0500051305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Stone choppers, eyed needles, camel saddles, chariots, and contraceptives: the past is paved with remarkable inventions. The latest book in this popular series takes us on an eye-opening and unusual journey through early human innovationsusome fundamental and others intriguing or bizarre. An international team of scientists, archaeologists, and historians reveals seventy of the most extraordinary inventions, from two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period.

The book begins with the basic technologies of stone, fire, woodworking, ceramics, metallurgy, glass, and we...
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Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Volume 65)

By: Feeney, Denis

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of California Press: December 2008

Seller ID: 466549

ISBN: 0520258010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a world where time was movable and changeable and where simply ascertaining a date required a complex and often contentious cultural narrative. In a style t...
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Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

By: Fox, Margalit

Price: $7.00

Publisher: February 2017

Seller ID: 334681

ISBN: 0062228862

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.

When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece's Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe's earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions...
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Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian

By: Fox, Robin Lane

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 415290

ISBN: 0465024963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics--these are the foundations of Western civilization. In The Classical World, eminent classicist Robin Lane Fox brilliantly chronicles this vast sweep of history from Homer to the reign of Augustus. From the Peloponnesian War through the creation of Athenian democracy, from the turbulent empire of Alexander the Great to the creation of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity, Robin Lane Fo...
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Classical World: An Epic History From Homer To Hadrian

By: Fox, Robin Lane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin UK: July 2006

Seller ID: 466511

ISBN: 0141021411

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history, spans almost a thousand years of change from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian. Bringing grea...
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Category: Ancient History