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 A Companion to Roman Architecture 
 A Companion to Roman Architecture Author: Roger B. Ulrich Wiley-Blackwell 2013 ISBN: 1405199644 Pages: 614 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 21 MB A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy–to–reference volume. Offers a cross–disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology Brings together contributions by leading scholars in architectural history An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies and space and construction Includes extensive, up–to–date bibliography and glossary of key Roman architectural terms.
The Bioarchaeology of Individuals
 Author: Ann L. W. Stodder (Editor), Ann M. Palkovich (Editor) The Bioarchaeology of Individuals (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global) University Press of Florida 2012 Format: True PDF Size: 36.3 Mb Language: English "Harnessing the concept of 'the power of one,' this book guides the reader into the past using carefully woven biographies rich in detail and scope."--Anne L. Grauer, Loyola University, Chicago "The populational approach to bioarchaeology tends to be monochrome in its efforts to answer broader research-oriented questions. This volume splashes the past with color through a select group of individuals who actually experienced it."--Margaret A. Judd, University of Pittsburgh From Bronze Age Thailand to Viking Iceland, from an Egyptian oasis to a family farm in Canada, The Bioarchaeology of Individuals invites readers to unearth the daily lives of people throughout history. Covering a span of more than four thousand years of human history and focusing on individuals who lived between 3200 BC and the nineteenth century, the essays in this book examine the lives of nomads, warriors, artisans, farmers, and healers. The contributors employ a wide range of tools, including traditional macroscopic skeletal analysis, bone chemistry, ancient DNA, grave contexts, and local legends, sagas, and other historical information. The collection as a whole presents a series of osteobiographies--profiles of the lives of specific individuals whose remains were excavated from archaeological sites. The result offers a more "personal" approach to mortuary archaeology; this is a book about people--not just bones.
Arab Historians of the Crusades
 Arab Historians of the Crusades University of California Press Author: Francesco Gabrieli 1984 Pages: 398 Format: PDF Size: 2,5 mb Language: English The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of the Acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happening were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two centuries of the Crusades. For the first time contemporary accounts of the fighting between Muslim and Christian have been translated into English, and the Western reader can learn 'the other side' of the Holy War. Seventeen authors are represented in the extracts in this work, which have been drawn from various types of historical writings. The excerpts are taken firstly from the general histories of the Muslim world, then from chronicles of cities, regions and their dynasties, and finally from biographies or records of the deeds of certain persons. The Arab histories of the Crusades compare favorably with their Christian counterparts in their rich accumulation of material and chronological information. Another of their merits is their faithful characterization, which they practiced in the brief but illuminating sketches of enemy leaders: Baldwin II's shrewdness, Richard Coeur de Lion's prowess in war, the indomitable energy of Conrad of Motferrat, Frederick II's diplomacy. The chronicles are generous, naturally, with their praises of the great champions of the Muslim resistance, especially of Saladin, who towers above all the other leaders in heroic stature. Although, this book gives a sweeping and stimulating view of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes.
Crossing over Sea and Land: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period
 Author: Michael F. Bird Crossing over Sea and Land: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period Hendrickson Publishers 2010 ISBN: 159856434X Language: English Pages: 208 Format: PDF Size: 10,67 МБ Second Temple Judaism was not a typical missionary religion with decisive and intentional plans for converting those outside the faith. However, Jewish attitudes and actions toward the Gentile world were diverse in the scattered communities across Palestine, resulting in differing strategies for recruiting new adherents and useful sympathizers.
Boats of the World: From the Stone Age to Medieval Times
 Author: Seán McGrail Boats of the World: From the Stone Age to Medieval Times Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198144687 2002 Format: PDF Size: 66,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 504 This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the Stone Age to Medieval times. All the regions of the world are covered, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Pacific.
The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
 The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road Author: Phillipe Foret, Andreas Kaplony Brill 2008 Pages: 243 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 28.7 Mb This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found within each cultural area, while the consequences of long-distance interaction across Eurasia remained poorly studied. Here ample attention is given to the journeys that notions and objects undertook to transmit spatial values to other civilizations. In retracing the steps of four major circuits right across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, "The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road" traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.
Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students
 Author: Carroll Moulton Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students Charles Scribners & Sons 1998 ISBN: 0684805073 Format: PDF Size: 82,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 809 Presents a history of ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
 Author: Irving Finkel The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Nan A. Talese 2014 Format: epub Size: 19.7 Mb Language: English The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection. Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.
The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples
 Author: Eleanor Winsor Leach The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples Cambridge University Press 2004 Format: PDF Size: 102 Mb Language: English Eleanor Winsor Leach offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Rome. Leach contends that the painted images reflect the codes of communication embedded in upper class life, such as the theatricality expected of those leading public lives, the self-conscious assimilation of Hellenistic culture among aristocrats, and their ambivalent attitudes towards luxury.
Ancient Greece
 Ancient Greece (Ancient Civilizations) Author: Diane Bailey Essential Library Ancient Civilizations 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1624035388 Pages: 112 Language: English Format: PDF (True) Size: 20 MB Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.[1] Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives
 The Ancient Indus Valley New Perspectives Author: Jane R. McIntosh ABC-CLIO Understanding Ancient Civilizations 2007 ISBN: 1576079074 Format: PDF Size: 8,16 МВ Language: English Pages: 441
Going to War in Ancient Egypt
 Author: Anne Millard Going to War in Ancient Egypt (Armies of the Past) Franklin Watts 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 38 Language: English Size: 66.4 MB Examines how charioteers and footsoldiers, archers and auxiliaries organized far-reaching military expeditions into unexplored territories. With full-colour illustrations and fact-filled text, you can find out what life was really like for a warrior.
Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context
 Author: Frederick G. Naerebout, Henk W. Singor Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context Wiley-Blackwell 2014 Format: PDF Size: 17.2 Mb Language: English Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context provides a chronological introduction to the history of ancient Mediterranean civilizations within the larger context of its contemporary Eurasian world. - Innovative approach organizes Greek and Roman history into a single chronology - Combines the traditional historical story with subjects that are central to modern research into the ancient world including a range of social, cultural, and political topics - Facilitates an understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world as a unity, just as the Mediterranean world is in its turn presented as part of a larger whole - Covers the entire ancient Mediterranean world from pre-history through to the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D. - Features a diverse collection of images, maps, diagrams, tables, and a chronological chart to aid comprehension - English translation of a well-known Dutch book, De oudheid, now in its third edition
The Persian Wars (Vol. I-IV)
 Author: Herodotus The Persian Wars (Vol. I-IV) HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1920-1925 Format: PDF Size: 90,61 mb 546+452+612+438
Ancient Greek Athletics
 Ancient Greek Athletics Yale University Press Author: Stephen G. Miller 2006 Pages: 299 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN: 978-0300115291 Size: 41 mb In this lavishly illustrated book, a world expert on ancient Greek athletics provides the first comprehensive introduction to the subject, vividly describing ancient sporting events and games and exploring their impact on art, literature, and politics. Using a wide array of ancient sources, written and visual, and including recent archaeological discoveries, Stephen Miller reconstructs ancient Greek athletic festivals and the details of specific athletic events.
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
 Author: Peter Heather The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders Oxford University Press 2014 Format: epub Size: 13.4 Mb Language: English In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus," was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower. But, if the Roman Empire was dead, Romans across much of the old empire still lived, holding on to their lands, their values, and their institutions. The conquering barbarians, responding toRome's continuing psychological dominance and the practical value of many of its institutions, were ready to reignite the imperial flame and enjoy the benefits. As Peter Heather shows in dazzling biographical portraits, each of the three greatest immediate contenders for imperial power--Theoderic, Justinian, and Charlemagne--operated with a different power base but was astonishingly successful in his own way. Though each in turn managed to put back together enough of the old Roman West to stake a plausible claim to the Western imperial title, none of their empires long outlived their founders' deaths. Not until the reinvention of the papacy in the eleventh century would Europe's barbarians find the means to establish a new kind of Roman Empire, one that has lasted a thousand years. A sequel to the bestselling Fall of the Roman Empire, The Restoration of Rome offers a captivating narrative of the death of an era and the birth of the Catholic Church.
A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC
 Author: Victor Parker A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC Wiley-Blackwell 2014 Format: PDF Size: 20.9 Mb Language: English A History of Greece: 1300‒30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt. - Introduces textual and archaeological evidence used by historians to reconstruct historical events during Greece’s Bronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods - Reveals the political and social structure of the Greek world in the late Mycenaean period (thirteenth century BC) through analysis of the Linear B tablets, the oldest surviving records in Greek - Features numerous references to original source materials, including various fragmentary papyri, inscriptions, coins, and other literary sources - Provides extensive coverage of the Hellenistic period, and covers areas excluded from most Greek history texts, including the Greek West - Features judicious use of illustrations throughout, and considers instructors’ teaching needs by structuring the later sections to facilitate teaching a parallel course in Roman History - Balances scholarship with a reader-friendly approach to create an accessible introduction to the political history of one of most remarkable ancient civilizations and sophisticated periods of world history
Ancient Water Technologies
 Author: L. Mays Ancient Water Technologies Springer ISBN: 9048186315 2010 Format: PDF Size: 11,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 275 There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today’s world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy threaten the existence of aquifers and watercourses that have supplied our needs for millennia. It provides an overview of the water technologies developed by a number of ancient civilizations, from those of Mesopotamia and the Indus valley to later societies such as the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Persians, and the ancient Egyptians. Of course, no book on ancient water technologies would be complete without discussing the engineering feats of the Romans and Greeks, yet as well as covering these key civilizations, it also examines how ancient American societies from the Hohokams to the Mayans and Incas husbanded their water supplies. This unusually wide-ranging text could offer today’s parched world some solutions to the impending crisis in our water supply.
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
 Author: Kara Cooney The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Crown 2014 Format: epub/pdf Size: 7.6 Mb Language: English Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty—was born into a privileged position in the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority with masculinity, Hatshepsut shrewdly operated the levers of power to emerge as Egypt's second female pharaoh. Hatshepsut successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific building periods. Scholars have long speculated as to why her monuments were destroyed within a few decades of her death, all but erasing evidence of her unprecedented rule. Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power—and why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power.
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