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 The Urban Image of Augustan Rome 
 The Urban Image of Augustan Rome Author: Diane Favro Cambridge University Press Contemporary South Asia S 1998 ISBN: 0521646650 Pages: 372 Language: Emglish Format: PDF Size: 59 MB The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital. Lacking dignity, unity, and a clear image during the Republic, the urban image of Rome became focused only when the state came under the control of Augustus, the first emperor, who transformed the city physically and conceptually. Intervening in an ad hoc manner, he repaired existing public structures, added numerous new monuments, established municipal offices for urban care, and promoted an enduring aesthetic. Directed by a single vision, the cumulative results were forceful and unified. This book explores for the first time the motives for urban intervention, methods for implementation and the socio-political context of the Augustan period, as well as broader design issues such as formal urban strategies and definitions of urban imagery.
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
 Author: Kathryn A. Bard An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (Second edition) Wiley-Blackwell 2015 Format: PDF Size: 28 Mb Language: English This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and new illustrations. - Superbly illustrated with photographs, maps, and site plans, with additional illustrations in this new edition - Organized into 11 chapters, covering: the history of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology; prehistoric and pharaonic chronology and the ancient Egyptian language; geography, resources, and environment; and seven chapters organized chronologically and devoted to specific archaeological sites and evidence - Includes sections on salient topics such as the constructing the Great Pyramid at Giza and the process of mummification
The races of Europe
 Author: Carleton Stevens Coon The races of Europe The Macmillan Company 1939 Format: PDF Size: 88.26 mb (+3%) Pages: 875 Language: English
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
 Author : John Julius Norwich : The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean New York: Vintage Books : 2007 ISBN: 1400034280 Pages: 720 Format : EPUB Size : 9 MB Language : English This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea represents the culmination of a great historian's unparalleled art and scholarship. John Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the French, the Venetians, the Popes, and the pirates of the Gulf. Above all, he deftly traces the intermingling of ancient conflicts and modern sensibilities that shapes life today on the shores of the Middle Sea.
Causing His Name To Live
 Causing His Name To Live (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East) Author: William J. Murnane BRILL 2009 ISBN: 9004176446 Pages: 399 Format: PDF Size: 12 mb Language: english William J. Murnane (1945-2000) dedicated his life to the epigraphic recording and historical interpretation of the monuments of pharaonic Egypt. In tribute to his important contributions to Egyptology, a prominent group of his colleagues and students offer a range of new studies on Egyptian epigraphy and historiography. Amarna studies loom large in the volume as they did in Murnane's own work. Several chapters investigate the art, history and chronology of the reigns of Akhenaten and his immediate successors. Other contributions deal with historical issues, especially those connected with the epigraphic and archaeological aspects of the Theban temples of Karnak and Luxor. The book is richly illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
 Author: Arthur A. Demarest Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation University Press of Colorado ISBN: 0870817396 2005 Format: PDF Size: 41,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 676 This book revisits one of the great problems in Mayan archaeology - the apparent collapse of Classic Maya civilisation from roughly AD 830-950. During this period the Maya abandoned their power centres in the southern lowlands and rather abruptly ceased the distinctive cultural practices that marked their apogee in the Classic period. Archaeological fieldwork during the past three decades, however, has uncovered enormous regional variability in the ways the Maya experienced the shift from Classic to Post-classic society, revealing a period of cultural change more complex than acknowledged by traditional models. Featuring an impressive roster of scholars, the book presents the most recent data and interpretations pertaining to this perplexing period of cultural transformation in the Maya lowlands. Although the research reveals clear interregional patterns, the contributors resist a single overarching explanation. Rather, this volume's diverse and nuanced interpretations provide a new, more properly grounded beginning for continued debate on the nature of lowland "Terminal Classic Maya Civilisation".
Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Vol. I-II)
 Author: Aristotle Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Vol. I-II) Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library 1938, 1960 (Reprint 1962) Format: PDF Size: 62,98 mb 568+784
Civil Wars
 Author: Caesar Civil Wars HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Loeb Classical Library Language: /English 1914 (Reprint 2001) Format: PDF Size: 21,53 mb 400
Greek and Roman Necromancy
 Greek and Roman Necromancy Author: D.Ogden Princeton University Press 2001 Pages: 338 ISBN: 0-691-00904-Х Format: PDF Quality: Good Language: English Size: 42 mb In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language.
The Buffalo Hunters
 The Buffalo Hunters Author:Editors of :Time-Life Books THE AMERICAM INDIANS Cahners Business Information, Inc 1993 Language:English Format:pdf Size:31 mb Pages:192 "This book is a goldfield of knowledge when it comes to the Native Americans that inhabited the Great Plains. It begins with doing an over view of the various tribes giving a brief synapses on each of the individual tribes and describe there basic language and physical features to give the reader an idea of how diverse the tribes actually where. The passages then transfer towards the ways of the families and clans. The way tribes varied so much is astounding and how efficient and resourceful the hunters on the plains was unmatched by any other race. A buffalos hid was used for shelter, clothing and blankets. The shoulder blades were perfect to be used as tools such as hoes and squash blades. Tendons that ran along the bison’s hind legs were flexible and durable to be turned into bowstrings. And what didn’t have an obvious purpose became an ornament for celebration and decoration. Finally the book comes to the customs and traditions of various tribes and how some are still in use till this very day."
The Virtues of War
 Author: Pressfield Steven The Virtues of War DOUBLEDAY 204 Format: PDF Size: 2.3Mb Language: English I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father’s brutal assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander never denies the hard realities of the code by which he lives: the virtues of war. But as much as he was feared by his enemies, he was loved and revered by his friends, his generals, and the men who followed him into battle. Often outnumbered, never outfought, Alexander conquered every enemy the world stood against him–but the one he never saw coming. . . .
The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History
 Author: Michael Baigent The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History Harper Collins 2006 Format: pdf Size: 10.8 Mb Language: English What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now? What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion? In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. The book became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know
Aztecs - Reign of Blood and Splendor
 Author: Collective Aztecs - Reign of Blood and Splendor (Lost Civilizations Series) Time-Life Books 1992 Format: PDF Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 30.4 MB Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Aztec civilization, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.
The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts
 Author:Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James P. Allen The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts Society of Biblical Literature 2005 Format: pdf Size: 10.8 MB Language: English The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies in their antiquity and in their endurance throughout the entire intellectual history of ancient Egypt. This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published. It incorporates full restorations and readings indicated by post–Old Kingdom copies of the texts and is the first translation that presents the texts in the order in which they were meant to be read in each of the original sources.
Ancient China
 Ancient China (Ancient Civilizations) Author: Marcie Flinchum Atkins Essential Library Ancient Civilizations 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1624035364 Pages: 115 Language: English Format: PDF (True) Size: 19 MB "In Ancient China, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient China, including their technological wonders and feats of construction. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's website.
The Roman Army
 Author: John Wilkes The Roman Army Lerner Publications Co. 1977 Format: PDF Pages: 51 Language: English Size: 39.1 MB Explains the organization and structure of the Roman imperial army of 100 A.D. and the daily life of a professional soldier in the Roman Empire.
Rome A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
 Author: Robert Hughes Rome A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History Alfred A. Knopf 2011 ISBN: 0307268446 Language: English Pages: 512 Format: EPUB Size: 21,86 МБ From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than two thousand years to the city's foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome's development for centuries.
Au temps des Hebreux
 Au temps des Hebreux (La Vie privee des Hommes) Author: Peter Connolly Hachette Jeunesse Graduation Year: 1984 ISBN: 2010101375 La Vie privee des hommes Pages: 68 Format: pdf Size : 20 mb Quality: excellent Language: French
Ancient Greece
 Ancient Greece Author: Dorling Kindersley 2007 Pages: 72 Format: pdf Size: 19 MB ISBN: 1405320419 Language: English This title helps you to be an eyewitness to Ancient Greece. You can watch the past come to life: from how Greek athletes did the long-jump to why Socrates drank hemlock - explore the history, daily life, beliefs, and achievements of this amazing civilisation, whose influence can still be seen today.
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