Category: Ancient

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many...
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Classical Greece,: By C.M. Bowra and the editors of Time-Life Books (Great ages of man)

By: Bowra, C. M

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Time : January 1967

Seller ID: 77627

ISBN: B0007EPONC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Civilisation : a personal view

By: Clark, Kenneth

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper & Row : January 1969

Seller ID: 56994

ISBN: B00005VM00

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Greek Inscriptions (Reading the Past)

By: Cook, B. F.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of California Press : December 1987

Seller ID: 90834

ISBN-13: 9780520061132

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Introduces a wide variety of Greek inscriptions on stone slabs, pottery, bronzes, and other small objects, from simple names to more complicated texts, some in local dialects with distinctive alphabets.
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By: Cooney, Kara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crown : October 2015

Seller ID: 69159

ISBN-13: 9780307956774

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 to emerge as Egypt's ...
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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION: THE LIFE OF GREECE

By: Durant, Will

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1966

Seller ID: 34985

ISBN: B000SA7F8W

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Heroes of the Dawn: Celtic Myth

By: Editors, Time-Life Books

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Time Life Education : January 1999

Seller ID: 93603

ISBN-13: 9780705421713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This is just one volume in a new series called Myth & Mankind, a a culture-by-culture examination of world myth & its historical roots. Whether exploring the myths of India, Egypt, Tibet or Greece, each book brings an ancient culture to life.
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The Horizon Concise History of Greece

By: Eliot, Alexander

Price: $5.00

Publisher: American Heritage Pub. Co : January 1972

Seller ID: 84731

ISBN-13: 9780070191761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ramses II: The Great Pharaoh and His Time

By: Freed, Rita E

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Denver Museum of Natural History : January 1987

Seller ID: 24036

ISBN: B0006ENPDO

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Greece and Rome: Builders of Our World (The Story of Man Library)

By: Geographic, National

Price: $5.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : January 1968

Seller ID: 90917

ISBN: B000JJUAXE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Knights at Tournament (Elite)

By: Gravett, Christopher

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Osprey Publishing : March 1992

Seller ID: 8209

ISBN-13: 9780850458367

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Like all warrior classes throughout history medieval knights engaged in military games, partly in preparation for war and partly for pure sport. From their often brutal origins in the 10th century to the gaudy pageantry and eventual decline of the 15th and 16th centuries, tournaments were the centre of the knightly life. The image of the armoured and surcoated knight on his caparisoned charger remains the epitome of the chivalric ideal. Christopher Gravett explores the history of the tournament from its chaotic beginnings to its more formal, 'civilised' incarnation, describing the various 'eve...
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Fascinating Hieroglyphics: Discovering, Decoding & Understanding the Ancient Art

By: Jacq, Christian

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc : January 1997

Seller ID: 82810

ISBN-13: 9780806981000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Search for Alexander

By: Lane Fox, Robin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little Brown & Compay : October 1980

Seller ID: 74673

ISBN-13: 9780316291088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (Centers of Civilization (Paperback))

By: Lewis, Bernard

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press : December 1972

Seller ID: 95154

ISBN-13: 9780806110608

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as "the Conqueror," launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered. As the Sultan's Imam intoned the Muslim creed within the walls of Hagia Sophia, the Greek cathedral become a Turkish mosque, and the curtain went up on a new era. In this, the ninth volume of The Centers of Civilization Series, Bernard Lewis describes the city and its civilization in the great age of the Ottoman Sultanate, between the fifteenth and ...
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Echoes of the Ancient World, The Egyptians in the Shadow of the Pyramids (Egypt during the Old Kingdom)

By: Malek, Jaromir

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Golden Press : January 1986

Seller ID: 93607

ISBN: B000UZS1NI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

All Of Ancient Rome Then and Now

By: Martinelli, Maurizio (editor)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bonechi : January 1992

Seller ID: 64902

ISBN: B002DFJCFO

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory

By: Meier, Robert J.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Alpha : August 2003

Seller ID: 8220

ISBN-13: 9780028644219

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the 3.5 million-year-old Lucy - one of our most famous early ancestors - to the rise of Homo sapiens (modern humans) and the spread of our species throughout the globe, this guide offers a concise overview of approximately 4.5 million years that have made us human.
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the book of mirdad

By: Mikhail Naimy

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 51031

ISBN: 281DES1001665

Binding: Trade Paperback

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TEMPLIERS GLOIRE A TRAGEDIE (ANGL)cs7324 (HISTOIRE - HISTOIRE) (French Edition)

By: Patrick, HUCHET

Price: $7.00

Publisher: OUEST FRANCE : January 2011

Seller ID: 49879

ISBN-13: 9782737353314

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Then and Now: The Wonders of the Ancient World Brought to Life in Vivid See-Through Reconstructions

By: Perring, Stefania

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Macmillan General Reference : October 1991

Seller ID: 64437

ISBN-13: 9780025994614

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This book shows full-page colour photographs of the most visited ancient sites throughout the world as they appear today - then superimposes, on acetate overlays, vivid, realistic artist's reconstructions of the same sites as they appeared in their original glory. The sun-baked shell of the Parthenon is restored to its brightly-painted greatness on Athen's Acropolis. The stones and columns of the Roman Forum are joined up and filled in to recreate one of the great public places of the world. Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, the Aztec Temples of the Sun, the Palace of Knossos, the Second Temple, Pompe...
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Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

By: Peter Tompkins

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper & Row : 1976

Seller ID: 81184

ISBN: 281DES1004025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Light tearing to the edges. Interior unmarked.
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Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean

By: Publishing, DK

Price: $6.00

Publisher: DK ADULT : August 2001

Seller ID: 91623

ISBN-13: 9780789478320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ancient Greece occupied a strategic position as the central crossroads of the ancient world. It formed a meeting place between the hinterlands of a still undeveloped Europe and the great civilizations of Asia Minor and North Africa. Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean brings alive this fascinating story, beginning with the Cretan civilization of the Minoans. The book recounts the rise of the Greeks and the fate of local warlords, who gradually gave way to an emerging middle class merchants, craftsmen, and farmers. It goes on to relate the supreme test of the Greek spirit: the wars with Persia...
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Twilight in the Forbidden City (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

By: Reginald, Johnston

Price: $7.00

Publisher: OUP China : January 1988

Seller ID: 76829

ISBN-13: 9780192821058

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Women in Ancient Egypt

By: Robins, Gay

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1993

Seller ID: 87094

ISBN-13: 9780674954694

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An idealized version of women appears everywhere in the art of ancient Egypt, but the true nature of these women's lives has long remained hidden. Gay Robins's book, gracefully written and copiously illustrated, cuts through the obscurity of the ages to show us what the archaeological riches of Egypt really say about how these women lived, both in the public eye and within the family.The art and written records of the time present a fascinating puzzle. But how often has the evidence been interpreted, consciously or otherwise, from a male viewpoint? Robins conducts us through these sources with...
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The Story of Greece and Rome

By: Spawforth, Tony

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : November 2018

Seller ID: 95281

ISBN-13: 9780300217117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civ...
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