The Greek Experience of India
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCE. When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognisable, and the customs of the people were various and puzzling. Alexander's conquest ended with his death in 323 BCE,...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Great Transformation
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this five-hundred-year span? And why do they have such similar...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The First Ghosts
‘It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.’ - History Revealed ‘A fascinating journey’ - Yorkshire Post ‘Marvellous... Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures at the British Museum, and is one of the most clever, and nicest, of people it has ever been my pleasure to encounter......Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Far Edges of the Known World
‘A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture’ The Times ‘A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery’ Spectator 'This is the book for expanding your ancient history horizon' Tristan Hughes, host of 'The Ancients' podcast What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and events. In the process, he rethinks some of historians' most widely held and long-established views: Was the Empire's disintegration caused primarily by...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Fall Of The West
The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a bestselling subject since the 18th century. Until very recently, the academic view embarrassedly downplayed the violence and destruction in an attempt to provide a more urbane account of late antiquity. Barbarian invasions were mistakenly described as the movement of peoples. It was all painfully tame and civilised. But now Adrian Goldsworthy...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Etruscans
Now in paperback, a brief introduction to the mysteries of the enigmatic, ancient civilisation in the area of modern Italy. The Etruscans were a powerful people, marked by an influential civilisation in ancient Italy. Despite their prominence, the Etruscans are often portrayed as mysterious—a strange and unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley's The Etruscans presents...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Essential Greek Historians
Includes an introduction, maps, and selections from Herodotus' The Histories, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's The Hellenica, Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens, The Parian Marble, Polybius' The Histories, Memnon's History of Heracleia, Plutarch's Life of Alexander. See the full Table of Contents on the www.hackettpublishing.com book title page. Burstein's The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Devil's Atlas
'Very beautiful and illuminating' – Mariella Frostrup Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas, delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil’s Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells, and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings, and captivating stories, the reader...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Conqueror's Gift
The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late Antiquity Ethnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, especially those who guide its course, understand themselves in the midst of enemies, allies, and...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Barbarians
Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Audiences of Herodotus
By recognising the pervasive influence that Herodotus’s career as an oral performer had on his composition of the Histories, The Audiences of Herodotus: Oral Performance and the Battle Narratives argues that the Histories’ versions of the three most important battles in the Persian Wars—the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea—persistently and disproportionately advance the interests, biases, and political agendas of...Hardback$21220Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Assyrians
At the height of its power around 660 BC, the Assyrian empire, centred in northern Iraq, wielded dominance from Egypt to Iran. This vast region was ruled by a series of kings who showcased their power by constructing magnificent palaces adorned with superlative sculptures depicting royal rituals, battles and hunts. Established by military might, the empire thrived under administrators who...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Art of Running
In 490 BCE, the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary 26-mile run to deliver to the people of Athens news of their city's victory over the Persians. Each year, all over the world, thousands of athletes and millions of enthusiasts replicate Philippides's marathon. Why do we run? To what end all the effort and pain? The Greeks were the...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
In The Ark Before Noah, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000-year-old piece of clay enables a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel's enthralling real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum—the arrival one day in 2008 of...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Who built it, how, and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years. However, modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding of this iconic stone circle. Stonehenge’s history straddles the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, though its...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Spectacle in the Roman World
Gladiatorial combat, animal displays, naumachiae (staged naval battles), and spectacular executions were all an important part of Roman culture. The provision of a wide range of purpose-built buildings—from theatres to amphitheatres to circuses—as venues across the empire is testimony to the popularity and significance of these displays. Spectacle in the Roman World offers an introduction to the main forms of...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Sparta's Third Attic War
When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasting their resources on ulterior objects, they would "win through" and Thucydides believed him. After Pericles' death, however, to the historian's dismay, the Athenians pursued risky adventures tangential...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Seven Against Thebes
An exploration of myth, legend, and origin stories passed from generation to generation. In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their number to the throne of his father, the famous King Oedipus. Several children of those seven heroes...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Seven Against Thebes
An exploration of myth, legend, and origin stories passed from generation to generation. In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their number to the throne of his father, the famous King Oedipus. Several children of those seven heroes...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors
Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great’s death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact ranging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals. In this innovative book, Holton expertly...Hardback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome Victorious
Rome – Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines – was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome's Enemies (5)
Rome's Enemies (5) by Dr David Nicolle delves into the challenges faced by the Roman Empire along its desert frontier. In this region, the Empire often encountered few dangers as relations were typically grounded in mutual interest in trade across the frontier. However, when Rome clashed with the desert peoples, particularly those from Syria and Arabia, the Arabs, Berbers, and...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Rome Is Burning
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It's a story that has been told for more than two millennia – and it's likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Rome Is Burning
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burned. It's a story that has been told for more than two millennia – and it's likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome Before Rome
Philip Matyszak skilfully navigates the myths and legends of early Rome, exploring the enigmatic origins of the Romans and how the first seeds of a great empire were sown. 'I sing of arms and the man,' wrote Virgil at the start of the Aeneid, one of Rome's most iconic origin stories exploring the tumultuous journey of Aeneas from Trojan prince...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rome
Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus—a first king of Rome—who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC, making it the world's first city-state, as well as...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome
The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. A Times History Book of the Year 'Vivid, pacey... Superb' The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading' Guardian. 'Confident, elegant... Admirably ambitious' Daily Mail. From Romulus and Remus to the films of Fellini, Rome has always exerted a hold on the world's imagination....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Roma Aeterna
Roma Aeterna (the main book of Pars II of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) introduces some of the most celebrated authors of Roman antiquity through the lens of Roman literature and mythology. A vivid description of the city's monuments precedes a prose retelling of the first four books of Virgil's Aeneid, with many of the most famous passages...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Religion in Roman Egypt
This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E.). Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing native piety—from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and terracotta...Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Rebels against Rome
Award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins brings his renowned expertise to Rebels Against Rome, where he showcases many of the rebellious movements against the Great Roman Empire, as well as the rebels behind these lost causes and the circumstances that fuelled their brazen plights. #1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON The Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Pompeii
This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination, Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the town are familiar all around the world. However, even today our...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Polis
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration among fellow city-states and social bargaining between a community...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Plataea 479 BC
A highly illustrated account of the closing battle of the Greek and Persian War. Plataea 479 BC details one of the biggest and most important land battles of pre-20th century history. Close to 100,000 hoplite and light-armed Greeks faced an even larger barbarian army that included elite Asian cavalry and infantry, with troops from as far away as India. Notably,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Picts
Picts was shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award. The Picts have fascinated historians and enthusiasts for centuries. Emerging around AD 300, they defied the might of the Roman Empire, only to disappear at the end of the first millennium AD. Yet, they left behind significant legacies, including laying the foundations for...Paperback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans
The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital—Petra, a magnificent city carved out of the mountains, and one of the most breath-taking achievements of the ancient world. Yet they were famous in their day—Herod the Great and his sons, and a kaleidoscope of Roman emperors...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Past and Process in Herodotus and Thucydides
This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre-Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who worked within the same theoretical framework or space. The work also brings to the study of the ancient historians widely accepted and recognisable concepts derived from contemporary historiography and the methodology of...Paperback$23000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Out of One, Many
A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Origins of the Gods
Origins of the Gods offers a detailed examination of the role played by shamanism and communication with higher intelligences in the development of ancient civilizations. This intriguing book explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with non-human intelligences. The authors share supporting evidence from the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Nubia
Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians' religious, social, economic, and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the Stone Ages to their rise to power during the Napatan and Meroitic periods. It concludes with the recent struggles for diplomacy in North...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet offers a compelling reinterpretation of Greek thought and literature. These scholars are at the forefront of contemporary French classical studies, renowned for their innovative approaches. In this work, presented as a single volume, the authors deliver a provocative and unconventional reading of Greek tragedy. They highlight its stark...Paperback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Myth and Thought among the Greeks
A classic work that rereads questions of muthos and logos in multifaceted contexts. When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays—three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Masters of Command
Bestselling author and historian Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world waged war and draws lessons from their experiences that apply on and off the battlefield. Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar—each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight, when, and why; to know what victory was...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Lost Battles
From the author's introduction: Ancient battles seize the modern imagination. Far from being forgotten, they have become a significant aspect of popular culture, prompting a continuing stream of books, feature films, television programmes and board and computer games... there is a certain escapist satisfaction in looking back to an era when conflicts between entire states turned on clear-cut pitched battles...Paperback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Knossos
Knossos is one of the most important sites in the ancient Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements on the island of Crete from the Neolithic until the late Roman times. Aside from its size, it held a place of particular significance in the mythological imagination of Greece and Rome as the seat of King Minos, the location of the...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Justinian's Institutes
The high point of the reign of the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century AD was the compilation of Roman law in four works: the Institutes, Digest, Code, and Novels. Known as the Corpus iuris civilis, this collection is the basic material for studying Roman law and serves as the source of much of Europe's legal thinking. This volume consists...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Julio-Claudian Emperors
The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero..are condemned to everlasting Infamy, wrote Gibbon. This 'infamy' has inspired the work of historians and novelists from Roman times to the present. Julio-Claudian Emperors summarises political events during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, and the civil wars of the 'year of four...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Invisible Romans
Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives and left almost no trace in history—until now. But their words are preserved in literature, letters, inscriptions, and graffiti, and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
In the Name of Rome
The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the greater part of the known world. This was thanks largely to the generals who led the Roman army to victory after victory, and whose strategic and tactical decisions shaped the course of several centuries...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China
Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome and Han China. Approaching the historical material with a comparative perspective, Loewe...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Imperial Chinese Armies (1)
After AD 304, the five 'barbarian' tribes divided north China among themselves, establishing dynasties that were often Chinese only in name. These dynasties frequently engaged in feuds with each other and with the native states, whose stronghold was now in the south. It was under this barbarian influence that the heavily-armoured cavalry, which were to become the striking force of...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Imagining Xerxes
Hailed by Tom Holland as a 'fascinating and compendious survey of ancient attitudes to Xerxes' and now available in paperback, Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes’ afterlives within the ancient literary tradition and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts. This Persian king, who invaded...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill...Paperback$10900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Histories
This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main characters, places, and terms; suggested further reading; and an index of proper nouns. Histories edition reproduces the fluent pace and readability of Herodotus' world-encompassing work. Mensch has produced a close translation of Herodotus' Greek that...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Gods and Robots
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life - and even invented real automated machines. The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, Greek...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Gods and Robots
The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—and even invented real automated machines. The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval...Hardback$11100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Foundations of Chinese Civilization
Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China Through Comics series answers those questions and more. For all ages, Foundations of Chinese Civilization covers China's early history in comic form, introducing philosophies like Confucianism and Daoism, the story of the Silk Road, famous emperors...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology and popular knowledge, finding historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes and hidden gems from ancient, medieval and modern...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Flame of Miletus
Discover how ancient Greek science shaped the modern world in this captivating journey through philosophy, astronomy, medicine, and the cross-cultural legacy of knowledge. Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Eureka!
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical, and cultural language. They invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Egyptomania
A historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination. Now available in paperback, Egyptomania takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the imagination, a land of strange gods, mysterious magic, secret knowledge, monumental pyramids, enigmatic sphinxes and immense wealth. Egypt has always exerted a powerful attraction on the Western mind, and an array of figures...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners
An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no previous knowledge of grammar or ancient languages. It guides you through the inscriptions, from simple to more complex, supported by full explanations and translations. You will see your knowledge and skills grow as Bill Manley clearly explains the mysteries of...Hardback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Egypt
From ancient Rome to the present day, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why? Egypt by Christina Riggs introduces the history, art, and religion of Egypt from its earliest dynasties to its final fall to Rome and explores the influence ancient Egypt has had through the centuries. Looking for a vanished...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Divine Institutions
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic. Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the...Hardback$11600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Digging Deeper
An archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted fieldwork around the world, from Greece and Crete to Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. In Digging Deeper, Cline answers the questions archaeologists are most frequently asked, such as: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old...Paperback$4300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Democracy in Classical Athens
For two centuries, classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period, Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek powers. Democracy in Classical Athens traces the...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire, published by I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published in years. It proposes a convincing contemporary answer to an age-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Dancing for Hathor
The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had 'reversed the ordinary practices of mankind' in treating their women better than any of the other civilisations of the ancient world. Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture, and textual...Hardback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Conquering Jerusalem
Award-winning author and historian Stephen Dando-Collins provides unparalleled new insight into the First Jewish Revolt. Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent years to illuminate the people and events as never before. Neither side emerges from the conflict unscathed. Both were...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Conquering Jerusalem
Expert historian and author Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles the First Jewish Revolt and its important role in both Roman and Jewish historical memory. Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the seven-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent years to illuminate the people and events as never before. Neither side...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Cleopatra's Needles
In the half-century between 1831 and 1881, three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted...Paperback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Cicero
As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate, and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot, and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous accounts of murder, corruption, and violence that plagued Rome in the first century BC, his surviving...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Celtic Scotland
This authoritative and handsomely illustrated book is aimed at the general reader who wants to know about the mysterious people who inhabited Scotland from the Bronze Age onwards. They created wonderful works of art in gold and silver, and their brochs and hillforts are scattered over the Scottish landscape. Many modern-day Scots are descended from them. Using the results of...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Carthage
This book traces the formation of the archaeological site of Carthage and how it re-emerged in the minds of European antiquarians and travellers in the early modern world. For almost 1,600 years, the ancient city sat on the north coast of Africa, dominating the central Mediterranean until its fall in 698 CE. One of the oldest cities in the Mediterranean,...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Caesar Versus Pompey
Who was Rome's greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey? Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers, and emperors. Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual enemy...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Caesar's Gallic Wars
A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world. Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic, and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Brief Histories: Ancient Greece
Journey back in time to explore one of the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history. In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens. She charts the incredible rise and fall of...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt
Journey back in time to explore one of the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history. In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price asks us how we know so much about life in ancient Egypt, from the working lives of pyramid builders to the power of the Pharaoh. The book explores the complexities of...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Birthing Romans
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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