Ancient History category: 8298 books
The Ancient Greek Economy
Markets, Households and City-States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange...
The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt
Sacred Science and the Mystery of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
How ancient Egyptians understood quantum theory
• Investigates the history of how modern religion and the Age of Science were inspired by the sacred science of the ancients
• Examines how quantum theory explains that the cosmos arises from consciousness
• Reveals the unanimity...
The Ancient Egyptian Family
Kinship and Social Structure
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the ancient Egyptian family, Allen attempts to solve this long-standing puzzle. Allen argues that the matrilineal...
The Martial Arts of Ancient Greece
Modern Fighting Techniques from the Age of Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
An in-depth guide to the modern practice of Greek martial arts and their beginnings in ancient Greece and Egypt
• Examines the correlation between ancient depictions of one-on-one combat and how martial arts are practiced today
• Explores the close relationship between Greek martial...
Reconstructing Ancient Korean History
The Formation of Korean-ness in the Shadow of History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century...
Working IX to V
Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Vicki Leon, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
Ancient Syracuse
From Foundation to Fourth Century Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare ’You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most...
Ancient Indian History
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
The book is a comprehensive and authentic living record of the whole gamut of ancient Indian history. It deals with the cultural, political, geographical and socioeconomic conditions of ancient India.
The Barbarian's Beverage
A History of Beer in Ancient Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics
Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans...
by Dr Iain Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The history of ancient Rome is the history of a city, of its people, and of its empire which at its height encompassed all the lands around the Mediterranean Sea and which stretched from Britain in the west to Syria in the east. Roman civilisation relied on the wealth won in war and conquest and was...
by Manetho
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
An Egyptian priest that flourished in the third century BC, Manetho wrote ‘Aegyptiaca’ (History of Egypt), which provided a detailed history of his homeland to the Hellenic world. Although his original texts are now largely lost, important remains have survived, transmitted to us as fragments...
by Richard A. Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians and medics cope with arrow injuries, spear and sword gashes, dysentery, and infection without the benefits of anesthesia or modern medical technology? In this...
by Ken Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book about Ancient Greece is brought to you by the makers of the popular children's educational website Ducksters. Inside the book, you will travel through the history of Ancient Greece learning about its culture, people, and famous cities. You will read about the democracy of Athens, the...
Wonderful Things
A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing...