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 Roman Silver Coins 
 Roman Silver Coins Rotographic Publications Author: Richard Plant 2006 Pages: 100 Format: PDF Size: 4 mb Language: English For the first time, the most commonly encountered silver Roman coins can be inexpensively identified and some idea of value can be gained. Whether you are setting out to form a collection of every emperor or are already an experienced Roman Coin collector, you will not be able to put this book down! The line drawings of most obverse types mean that the legend is clear and readable in the book, and it makes a great aid to identification, as does the alphabetical list of emperors/empresses in the back of the book. This book includes an identification guide for republican coins, instructions on cleaning Roman silver coins and a list of Roman mint town mintmarks. It also includes an alphabetical list of Emperors/Caesars/Empresses and information of Roman coin grading. The book is ordered chronologically, and with the introduction of different coin types clearly mentioned, together with some historical notes, it also gives an easy to follow explanation of the Roman silver coinage and how it changed over 750 years.
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering The Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
 Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering The Dynasties of the Ancient Maya Thames & Hudson Author: Simon Martin, Nikolai Grube 2008 Pages: 240 Format: PDF Size: 36 mb Language: English "The ideal reference on Maya archaeology." Science News Behind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among numerous kingdoms. Intense rivalries, rapacious conquerors, and repeated dynastic defeat and breakdown are common themes in many tales of this mighty civilization. The ancient Maya remain one of the most vibrant areas of study in world archaeology. Fresh discoveries in the field, together with the ongoing process of hieroglyphic decipherment, mean that information is constantly coming to light. This new version of the only comprehensive, kingdom-by-kingdom history of the ancient Maya brings the story fully up to date with previously unknown rulers and new glyphic readings, as well as additional information on diplomacy and warfare. 366 illustrations, 86 in color
Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century AD Rome
 Author: Barbara E. Borg Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century AD Rome (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation) Oxford University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 72.9 Mb Language: English Tombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a transitional period, an era of major challenges -- political, economic, and social -- which inspired creativity and innovation, and paved the way for the new system of late antiquity. Barbara Borg argues that during this time there was, in many ways, a return to practices known from the Late Republic and early imperial period, with spectacular monuments for the rich, and a large-scale reappearance of collective burial spaces. Through a study of terraced tombs, elite monuments, the catacomb nuclei, sarcophagi, and painted image decoration, this volume explores how the third century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, a time when non-Christians and Christians shared fundamental ideas, needs, and desires as well as cemeteries, tombs, and hypogea. Ambition continued to be a driving force and a determining factor in all social classes, who found innovative solutions to the challenges they encountered.
The Battle That Stopped Rome
 The Battle That Stopped Rome Author: Peter S. Wells W. W. Norton & Co ISBN: 0393020282 2003 Language: English Pages: 273 Format: PDF Size: 31,8 mb In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20, 000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would have expanded to the River Elbe and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine. This narrative introduces us to the key protagonists: the Emperor Augustus, the most powerful of the Caesars; his general Varus, who was the wrong man in the wrong place; and the barbarian leader Arminius, later celebrated as the first German hero. In graphic detail, based on archeological finds, the author leads the reader through the mud and blood of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
Early Dynastic Egypt
 Early Dynastic Egypt Author: Wilkinson T.A.H. Routledge 1999 Pages: 373 ISBN: 0-415-18633-1 Format: pdf Quality: Good Language: English Size: 4,89 mb
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot
 Author: Robert Knapp Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot Profile Books 2011 Format: pdf/epub/mobi Size: 14.9 Mb Language: English 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 their traces can be found in the histories, treatises, plays and poetry created by the elite. A world lost from view for two millennia is recreated through these, and other, tell-tale bits of evidence cast off by the visible mass of Roman history and culture.
Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970-1100
 Author: Zvi Ankori Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970-1100 Columbia University Press ISBN: 0404515975 1968 Format: PDF Size: 9,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 546 Karaites in Byzantium: The Formative Years, 970-1100
Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers
 Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1992 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 22.7 MB Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers is one of twenty-four volumes in the Time-Life book series Lost Civilizations. This series explores the worlds of the past, using the finds of archaeologists and other scientists to bring ancient peoples and their cultures vividly to life. This volume describes the archaeology of pre-Columbian North America with an emphasis on the Eastern Woodlands and the Southwest. Chapters One and Two reveal the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures of the Eastern Woodlands. These cultures are known as Mound Builder societies as they constructed large earthen mounds for burial, religious, and ceremonial purposes. Many of these mounds are in the shapes of animals or unique geometric figures. These cultures flourished from around 500 B.C. to A.D. 1500. The Sinagua, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures of the Southwest are described in Chapters Three and Four; these cultures flourished from around 200 and 1450 A.D. and are collectively known as Cliff Dwellers, though the term more accurately applies only to the Anasazi. Numerous photographs of artifacts, ruins, and archaeological sites enhance the narrative. In conclusion, Mound Builders and Cliff Dwellers is a great depiction of the pre-Columbian archaeology of North America. Includes maps, index, and bibliography. Highly recommended.
Invisible Armies - An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present
 Author: Max Boot Invisible Armies - An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present Liveright Publishing 2013 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 827 Language: English Size: 6 MB
Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, C. 31 BC-AD 280
 Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, C. 31 BC-AD 280 Routledge Author: Brian Campbell 2002 Pages: 224 Format: PDF Size: 4,5 mb Language: English This well-documented study of the Roman army provides a crucial aid to understanding the Roman Empire in economic, social and political terms. Employing numerous examples, Brian Campbell explores the development of the Roman army and the expansion of the Roman Empire from 31 BC-280 AD. When Augustus established a permanent, professional army, this implied a role for the Emperor as a military leader. Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome examines this personal association between army and emperor, and argues that the Emperor's position as commander remained much the same for the next 200 years.
Troy c. 1700-1250 BC - Osprey Fortress 17
 Troy C. 1700-1250 BC Author: Nic Fields Osprey Publishing Osprey Fortress 17 2001 ISBN: 1841767034 Format: PDF Size: 13.7 MB Language: English Pages: 68 Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has captured the imagination of the Western World for some 3,000 years. Although there are many difficulties in using Greek myths, oral traditions and the Homeric epics to reconstruct the Trojan War, this title uses the latest archaeological evidence to reconstruct in detail the fortifications of Troy as well as making more general observations about the possible historical events behind the epics of Homer.
Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine
 Author: Chris Peers Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine Pen and Sword 2015 Format: epub/pdf Size: 4.1 Mb Language: English As a soldier and general, statesman and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is an almost legendary figure. His remarkable achievements and his ruthless methods have given rise to a sinister reputation. As Chris Peers shows, in this concise and authoritative study, he possessed exceptional gifts as a leader and manager of men - he ranks among the greatest military commanders - but he can only be properly understood in terms of the Mongol society and traditions he was born into. So the military and cultural background of the Mongols, and the nature of steppe societies and their armies, are major themes of his book. He looks in detail at the military skills, tactics and ethos of the Mongol soldiers, and at the advantages and disadvantages they had in combat with the soldiers of more settled societies. His book offers a fascinating fresh perspective on Genghis Khan the man and on the armies he led.
La Leyenda de Ulises
 Author: Peter Connolly La Leyenda de Ulises Grupo Anaya 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 78 Language: Spanish Size: 11 MB Odysseus, also known by the Roman name Ulysses, was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and a hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same Epic Cycle. Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (mētis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the decade-long Trojan War.
The Villanovan, Etruscan, and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts
 The Villanovan, Etruscan, and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts Author: Dr. David A. Caccioli Brill Monumenta Graeca Et Romana Vol.14 2009 ISBN: 978-90-04-17230-2 Pages: 253 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 10 MB The author is extremely grateful to William Peck, former Curator of Ancient Art, Elsie Peck, former Associate Curator of Ancient Art, Dr. Penelope Slough, former Associate Curator of Ancient Art, and the many current staff members of the Detroit Institute of Arts whose ceaseless efforts made this catalogue possible. These include Dr. Salvador Salort-Pons, Curator of European Art, Sylvia Inwood, Manager, Rights and Reproduction, Barbara Heller, Chief Conservator, and Christina Gibbs, Assistant Registrar.
Prehistoric Europe
 Prehistoric Europe Author: T.C. Champion, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, Alasdair Whittle Left Coast Press Inc 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1598744637 Pages: 371 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 38 MB The study of European prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the rapid growth rate of archeological discovery, advances in dating methods and the application of scientific techniques to archaeological material and new archaeological aims and frameworks of interpretation. Whereas previous work concentrated on the recovery and description of material remains, the main focus is now on the reconstruction of prehistoric societies and the explanation of their development. This volume provides that elementary and comprehensive synthesis of the new discoveries and the new interpretations of European prehistory. After and introductory chapter on the geographical setting and the development of prehistoric studies in Europe, the text is divided chronologically into nine chapters. Each one describes, with numerous maps, plans and drawings, the relevant archaeological data, and proceeds to a discussion of the societies they represent. Particular attention is paid to the major themes of recent prehistoric research, especially subsistence economy, trade, settlement, technology and social organization.
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
 Author: Walter E. Kaegi Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521814596 2003 Format: PDF Size: 17,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 372 This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial Byzantine emperor Heraclius (ad. 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. His stormy war-torn reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental changes in the Balkans and the Middle East, including the emergence of Islam. Heraclius' skills enabled him to capture and recapture important territory, including Jerusalem, Syria and Egypt. Yet, they proved to be of little value when he confronted early Islamic conquests.
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
 Author: Christopher I. Beckwith Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present Princeton University Press 2009 504 Format: Pdf Size: 3,8 MB Language: English The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols. In addition, he explains why the heartland of Central Eurasia led the world economically, scientifically, and artistically for many centuries despite invasions by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, and others. In retelling the story of the Old World from the perspective of Central Eurasia, Beckwith provides a new understanding of the internal and external dynamics of the Central Eurasian states and shows how their people repeatedly revolutionized Eurasian civilization. Beckwith recounts the Indo-Europeans' migration out of Central Eurasia, their mixture with local peoples, and the resulting development of the Graeco-Roman, Persian, Indian, and Chinese civilizations; he details the basis for the thriving economy of premodern Central Eurasia, the economy's disintegration following the region's partition by the Chinese and Russians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the damaging of Central Eurasian culture by Modernism; and he discusses the significance for world history of the partial reemergence of Central Eurasian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
 Author:Edited by The late Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi The Literature of Ancient Sumer Oxford University Press 2004 Format: pdf Size: 3.51 MB Language: English This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever-increasing understanding of Sumerian. In addition to reflecting the advances made by modern scholarship, the translations are written in clear, accessible English. An extensive introduction discusses the literary qualities of the works, the people who created and copied them in ancient Iraq, and how the study of Sumerian literature has evolved over the last 150 years.
Atlas of Classical History
 Author: Richard J. A. Talbert Atlas of Classical History Routledge ISBN: 0415034639 1989 Format: PDF Size: 6,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 From the Bronze Age to the reign of Constantine, the Atlas of Classical History provides a comprehensive series of maps, diagrams, and commentary designed to meet the needs of classical scholars, as well as general readers. Over 135 maps of the Greek and Roman worlds clearly mark the political affiliations of the cities and states, major military events, trade routes, artistic, cultural and industrial centers, and colonization and exploration.
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