The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: Rome’s Dealings with the Ancient Kingdoms of India, Africa and Arabia
The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained thei
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The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained thei
A comprehensive guide to the deities of ancient Egypt: their origins and their central role in the lives of the Egyptian people
“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was an English egyptologist, orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British M
Examines the Anunnaki gods’ evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conq
A revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from its earliest development to its final capitulation to Pizarro.
One of the great books of world literature--an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance.
Each year archaeologists discover many new finds at sites throughout the lands of the Bible, but few of them make the news headlines.
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from Califo
Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fas
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership?
In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street.
A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world's greatest conqueror--Genghis Khan--and the rise of the Mongol empire
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China rela
A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.
Cutting-edge thinkers on the origins of civilization, the Giza pyramids, pre-Columbian and early America, and the power of human conscious