Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair...
This is both a history of books as objects and artifacts but also a social history about the use and transmission (or restriction) of knowledge in the ancient world. The author sets the scene by discussing...
Text in French Books on Runes are not legion in France. Ever sincethe “Introduction to Runology” by Lucien Musset in1965, very few works have been published on thissubject which is nonetheless very rich.This new work enables the various opportunitiesof research on the appearance of the runes in NorthernEurope to be analysed and understood.
Explores the rise, migrations, and eventual decline of the Celtic tribes, detailing their wars, culture, and resistance against Roman expansion.The people we know as the Celts were an Iron Age culture...
150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome
by Paul Chrystal
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399056465
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2024-12-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
232 Pages
Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cleopatra and their significant actions and achievements. This book...
Explores how ancient Egyptian gods evolved from abstract concepts to recognizable forms, intertwining religion, magic, and daily life over millennia.In the days of Egyptian antiquity, many of the gods...
The Second part of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, Ptolemy V and Ptolemy VI.The second volume of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy...
For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This book explores the complex, tumultuous, and brutal interaction between the world’s first superpower and the peoples who would ultimately form the country we now call Scotland.
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