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 Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume 1-2 
 Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume 1-2 Author: Tsetskhladze G.R. Brill Academic Publishers 2008 ISBN: 9004155767 Pages: 1132 Format: PDF Size: 20 mb Language: english This 3-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. In this colonial world Greek and local societies met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. This work is dedicated to the late Prof. A. J. Graham. This second volume contains chapters on Central Greece on the eve of the colonisation movement, foundation stories, colonisation in the Classical period, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, Libya and Cyprus.
Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology
 Author:Karl W. Butzer Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press 1976 Format: pdf Size: 6.86 MB Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt is a fundamental contribution to knowledge of the cultural ecology of civilization in the Nile Valley. While the book extends the temporal range of publications scheduled for the Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology series well into more recent millennia, the nature of the problems Butzer treats and the perspective in which they are seen are obviously as central to the series' purpose as works dealing with early prehistory. This is the first effective attempt to isolate, understand, and synthesize the critical factors involved in the rise of an "irrigation civilization."
Letters to Atticus (Vol. I-III)
 Author: Cicero Letters to Atticus (Vol. I-III) Harvard University Press Language: /English 1912, 1913, 1918 (Reprint 1919, 1960, 1961) Format: PDF Size: 58,44 mb 524 + 472 + 488
The Vikings
 Author: Neil Oliver The Vikings Pegasus 2013 Format: epub Size: 36.5 Mb Language: English An archaeologist goes beyond the Vikings’ bloody reputation to search for the truth, in a new and groundbreaking history. The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the West and as far as Baghdad in the East. As the Vikings did not write their own history, we have to discover it for ourselves; and that discovery, as Neil Oliver reveals, tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe and built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years. Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings. Where did they emerge from? How did they really live? And just what drove them to embark on such extraordinary voyages of discovery over 1,000 years ago? The Vikings: A New History explores many of those questions for the first time in an epic story of one of the world's great empires of conquest.
The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History
 Author: Michael Baigent The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History Harper Collins 2006 Format: pdf Size: 10.8 Mb Language: English What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now? What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion? In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. The book became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know
Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates
 Author: Daniel Potts, HasanAl Naboodah, Peter Hellyer Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates Trident Press Ltd. ISBN: 190072488X 2003 Format: PDF Size: 49,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 336 This book is a compilation of papers presented at the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates, held in 2001, in the UAE under the patronage of HH Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE. Contributors include Beatrice de Cardi, Henrike Kiesewetter, Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu, H Kallweit, Vincent Charpentier, Margarethe Uerpmann, Lloyd Weeks, Robert Carter, Serge Cleuziou, Tom Vosmer, Remy Boucharlat, Peter Magee and Ernie Haernick.
Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa
 Author: Dr Deborah Vischak Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa Cambridge University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 11.1 Mb Language: English This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (ca. 2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an interdisciplinary approach to the material - drawing on methods from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, including agency theory, the role of style, the reflexive relationship between people and landscape, and the nature of locality and community identity. A careful examination of the architecture, setting, and unique text and image programs of these tombs in context provides a foundation for considering how ancient Egyptian provincial communities bonded to each other, developed shared identities within the broader Egyptian world, and expressed these identities through their personal forms of visual and material culture.
Early Europe - Mysteries in Stone
 Author: Collective Early Europe - Mysteries in Stone (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 27 MB Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams. The first Europeans: travelers on an epic journey Essay: the mysterious stones Search for permanence in an unsure world Essay: explorers of the wetlands Dawn of the age of metals Essay: a man frozen in time The age of insecurity Essay: voyagers from the past
The Sword of Rome
 Author: Jeremiah McCall The Sword of Rome : A Biography of Marcus Claudius Marcellus Pen and Sword Military Campaign Chronicles ISBN: 1848843798 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 4 Mb Language: English In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, Æthelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like – how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates in this compelling new study, documentary records and the growing body of archaeological evidence allows these questions to be answered with more authority than ever before. His broad, detailed and graphic account of the conduct of war in the Anglo-Saxon world in the unstable, violent centuries before the Norman Conquest will be illuminating reading for anyone who wants to learn about this key stage of medieval history.
Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs
 Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs Author: James P. Allen Cambridge University Press 2000 Pages: 510 ISBN: 0-521-65312 6 Format: djvu Quality: Good Language: English Size: 24,6 mb This is an introduction to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary, as well as twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. It also offers scholars of linguistics a complete grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt.
Angry Aztecs
 Author: Deary Terry Angry Aztecs Scholastic 1997 Pages: 128 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 15 Mb Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant. Want to know: - Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? - When the world is going to end? - How to play a really violent ball game? Find out about powerful priests, weird warriors, and the cunning Conquistadors, in this book which provides the foulest facts about Motecuhzoma, Cuahtemoc and other Angry Aztecs whose idea of fun was ripping out human hearts. Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
 Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta Author: Paul Cartledge, Antony Spawforth Routledge ISBN: 041526278X 2001-12-06 Pages: 704 Language:English Format:PDF Size:4.10 MB This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's crucial defeat in 362 BC. While Hellenistic and Roman Sparta focuses on this later part of Spartan history, challenging the misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status on the battlefield in 371 BC. Combining traditional written sources, archaeological perspectives and recent finds and scholarship, both volumes give an original and compelling account of Spartan history.
Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings
 Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings Author: T. Douglas Price Oxford University Press 2015 ISBN 10: 0190231971 Pages: 520 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 179 MB Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia-a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinavia provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record. An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter - gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these past societies - arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships - give vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world.
Tikal: The Center of the Maya World
 Tikal: The Center of the Maya World Author: Elizabeth Mann Mikaya Press Wonders of the World Book 2002 ISBN: 193141405X Pages: 48 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 90 MB During the first millennium AD, one of the world's great civilizations appeared in the dense jungles of Mesoamerica. All over the Yucatan Peninsula, the Maya mastered sophisticated principles of mathematics, architecture, agriculture and astronomy and created scores of powerful city-states. At the center of this world was the largest city of them all -- Tikal. Sprawling over twenty-five square miles, Tikal was situated in the heart of the Yucatan, near rivers that flowed to every corner of the Maya world. Tikal prospered from trade and military triumphs. Its rulers used its wealth to build a magnificent city of palaces, grand plazas and some of the largest stone pyramids seen in the Americas. As with all great achievements of a civilization, Tikal is a window into the culture that created it. By telling the story of the city -- from its humble beginnings, through its bloody wars, to its "golden age" -- Tikal illuminates the Maya world in all its grandeur, glory and genius.
Southeast Asia - A Past Regained
 Author: Collective Southeast Asia - A Past Regained (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 40.2 MB Southeast Asia: A Past Regained is one of twenty-four volumes in the Time-Life book series Lost Civilizations. This series explores the worlds of the past, using the finds of archaeologists and other scientists to bring ancient peoples and their cultures vividly to life. This volume is an introduction to the archaeology and history of Southeast Asia between 8,000 B.C. and around 1400 A.D.
Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, And Resistance
 Author: Avi Faust Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, And Resistance Equ inox Publishing ISBN: 1904768989 2008 Format: PDF Size: 10,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 The emergence of Israel in Canaan is perhaps the most debated topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and related fields. Accordingly, it has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in scholarly literature and in popular publications. Generally speaking, however, the archaeology of ancient Israel is wedged in a paradoxical situation. Despite the large existing database of archaeological finds (from thousands of excavations conducted over an extremely limited area) scholars in this (sub)discipline typically do not engage in Itheoretical (anthropological) discussions, thus exposing a large gap between it and other branches of archaeology, in this respect.
Human Heritage World History
 Human Heritage World History Author: Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill 2005 Pages: 752 Format: pdf Size: 50 MB ISBN: 0078695015 Language: English Human Heritage World History: Teachers Wraparound Edition
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
 The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature Author: Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth Cambridge University Press 2004 Pages: 562 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 4.3 Mb The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c. 100–c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written mainly in Greek, Latin and Syriac, Patristic literature emanated from all parts of the early Christian world and helped to extend its boundaries. The History offers a systematic account of that literature and its setting. The works of individual writers in shaping the various genres of Christian literature is considered, alongside three general essays, covering distinct periods in the development of Christian literature, which survey the social, cultural and doctrinal context within which Christian literature arose and was used by Christians. This is a landmark reference book for scholars and students alike.
The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt
 Author: Arnold, Dorothea, Lyn Green, and James Allen The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt Metropolitan Museum 1999 Format: PDF Size: 34,28 mb Language: English During a brief seventeen-year reign (ca. 1353–1336 B.C.) the pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, founder of the world's first known monotheistic religion, devoted his life and the resources of his kingdom to the worship of the Aten (a deity symbolized by the sun disk) and thus profoundly affected history and the history of art. The move to a new capital, Akhetaten/Amarna, brought essential changes in the depictions of royal women. It was in their female imagery, above all, that the artists of Amarna departed from the traditional iconic representations to emphasize the individual, the natural, in a way unprecedented in Egyptian art. A picture of exceptional intimacy emerges from the sculptures and reliefs of the Amarna Period. Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their six daughters are seen in emotional interdependence even as they participate in cult rituals. The female principle is emphasized in astonishing images: the aging Queen Mother Tiye, the mysterious Kiya, and Nefertiti, whose painted limestone bust in Berlin is the best-known work from ancient Egypt—perhaps from all antiquity.
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