Antiquities Archaeology category: 284 books
Jewish Catacombs
The Jews of Rome: funeral rites and customs
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
This slender well-written book is packed with easy-toread information about the structure of the Jewish community of Rome and the politics and history of the city where it developed and grew. Not an easy task because very little documentation has survived to the present day; Elsa Laurenzi is honest...
by Roger Rosewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality, power and charity, learning and invention, they survive today as haunting ruins, great houses and as some of our most important cathedrals and churches....
Discovering Eve
Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1991
This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite...
à la rencontre des Toltèques et des Aztèques
Voyage au Mexique (illustré)
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
(Nouvelle édition avec photos renumérisées et trois nouveaux chapitres) Ce récit de voyage illustré (plus de 75 photos) de 235 pages s'intéresse à la région toltèque et aztèque du Mexique.Tournant autour de la capitale Mexico, nous nous sommes ensuite dirigés vers l’Est et le Sud pour...
Les Mayas
Le Compte Long
Language: French
Release Date: June 21, 2017
NOUVELLE EDITION DE 60 PAGES
Ce livre est consacré au comptage du temps par le plus grand calendrier maya, qui recouvre une période de plus de 5000 ans.
Il revient sur la longue histoire de ce Compte Long, ainsi que sur l’origine de la prophétie de fin de cycle qui l'accompagne.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters...
The Other God
Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2000
This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
by Kyle A. Schenkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in...
The Ancient World
Greece, Egypt and Persia in the 4th century BC
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
SALAMIS and Plataea settled that Persia should not expand into Europe. Her European conquests could no longer be held; in 479 she lost Sestos and the Hellespont, in 478 Byzantium and the Bosporus; with the fall of Eion soon afterwards Thrace and Macedonia recovered their independence, Doriscus and...
Becoming Osiris
The Ancient Egyptian Death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
An in-depth examination of the ancient Egyptian approach to death and its relevance to the modern near-death experience
• A thought-provoking account of the numerous initiatic stages of the immortalization process
• Examines the Ritual of Embalming and the Ritual of the Opening of...
Reflections of Amma
Devotees in a Global Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Globally known as Amma, meaning "Mother," Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the "hugging saint," a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day...
The Story of the Scrolls
The miraculous discovery and true significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Palestine, in 1947 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and hidden in caves by an ancient Jewish sect, these mysterious manuscripts revolutionized our understanding of the Bible, of Judaism...
LIFE The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Race to Solve an Ancient Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
In the late 1940s, perhaps the greatest archeological find of modern times occurred when Bedouin shepherds unearthed mysterious scrolls in a cave near the Dead Sea, just south of Jerusalem. These documents turned out to be manuscripts-some of them biblical-reflecting the beliefs of a vanished Jewish...
Son of the Sun
The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The amazing story of Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV ), Pharaoh of Egypt 1360 B.C. This is not just the fascinating story of a man’s life— it is far more. It raises the curtain on man’s emerging from superstition and idolatry. Against the tremendous opposition of a fanatical and politically corrupt priesthood,...