Category: Ancient History (General)

Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion an...
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The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

By: Pat Shipman

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press: March 2015

Seller ID: 336441

ISBN: 0674736761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Royal Hordes: Nomad Peoples of the Steppes

By: Phillips, E. D.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: MCGRAW HILL: January 1895

Seller ID: 345458

ISBN: B01K3IMZ1K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Celts and the Classical World

By: Rankin, David

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Routledge: October 1996

Seller ID: 345479

ISBN: 0415150906

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book.
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The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 311586

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 321708

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 329935

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The World's Last Mysteries

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association: January 1978

Seller ID: 337627

ISBN: 089577044X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Builders Of The Ancient World: Marvels of Engineering

By: Ron Fisher, Norman Hammond, Ann Nottingham Kelsall, Joyce Stewart, Gene S. Stuart, Richard A. Cooke III

Price: $5.95

Publisher: National Geographic Society: January 1986

Seller ID: 173318

ISBN: 0870445855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Then & Now: As They Were in Their Days of Glory

By: Stefania Perring, Dominic Perring

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Book Sales: October 2000

Seller ID: 71395

ISBN: 0785811168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions in this richly illustrated series. In Then and Now, famous landmarks such as the Acropolis, the Coliseum, and the Tower of London are pictured as when just built and as they look now. Cities: Then and Now, documents how places such as Rome, Prague, and San Francisco appeared in their initial stages and how they have changed throughout history. Bible: Then & Now, features reconstructions of Jerusalem, Babylon, Jericho and eleven other Biblical sites as well as fascinating insight into legacies and peop...
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The Trojan War: A New History

By: Strauss, Barry

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2006

Seller ID: 346029

ISBN: 074326441X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer's "Iliad," one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork is based on actual events, there is disagreement about how much of Homer's tale is true. Drawing on recent archeological research, historian and classicist Barry Strauss explains what really happened in Troy more than 3,000 years ago.For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city. In the old vi...
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Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik

By: Susan Heuck Allen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of California Press: December 1998

Seller ID: 333626

ISBN: 0520208684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had launched his career. Now, at long last, Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight in this fascinating archaeological adventure that restores the British expatriate Frank Calvert to his rightful place in the story of the identification and excavation of H...
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