History - Ancient

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The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to K...

James Patterson

Since 1922, when Howard Carter discovered Tut's 3,000-year-old tomb, most Egyptologists have presumed that the young king died of disease, or perhaps an accident, such as a chariot fall.But what if his fate was actually much more sini...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

The Murder of King Tut

James Patterson

A secret buried for centuriesThrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

The Murder of King Tut

James Patterson

A secret buried for centuriesThrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among th...

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Published: Oct 2010

Roman Lives: Coriolanus, Pompey, Caes...

Mestrius Plutarchus

'Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Plutarch's series of biographies was the first of its kind, as much groundbreaking in conception as the Histories of Herodotus...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and...

William Rosen

The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople he built the world's most beautiful build...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Po...

Barbara Mertz

In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz reveals herself to be the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those who plan to visit---or have visited---the Nile Valley.

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2007

The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New H...

James J. O'Donnell

The heart of the puzzle of Rome's end is presented in a definitive and vivid history by James O'Donnell, renowned historian and the author of Augustine.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeol...

Simcha Jacobovici

Tabor and Jacobovici have examined a sealed first-century tomb in Jerusalem, where they have found the earliest evidence for a belief in the resurrection of Jesus, based on what appears to be the oldest Christian iconography ever disc...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

Spqr: A Roman Miscellany

Anthony Everitt

From the acclaimed author of Augustus, Cicero, and The Rise of Rome, an entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. Do you know to what use the Romans put th...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Spartacus War

Barry Strauss

• An authoritative account from an expert author: The Spartacus War is the first popular history of the revolt in English. A leading authority on classical military history, Barry Strauss has used recent archaeological discoveries, ...

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Published: Feb 2010

Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and...

William Rosen

* Mp3 CD Format *. The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople he built the world's m...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2007

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Coll...

Eric H. Cline

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surroundi...

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Published: Sep 2015

Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure: T...

Helen Dorey

Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt—the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by t...

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Published: Dec 2017

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Ol...

Jo Marchant

In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable ...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Emp...

Edward Gibbon

British parliamentarian and soldier Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) conceived of his plan for Decline and Fall while 'musing amid the ruins of the Capitol' on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, whi...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 1995

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

New York Times Bestseller. Mary Beard's "magisterial" history shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (The Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic upon its publication, Mary Beard narrates ...

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Published: Sep 2016

Confronting the Classics: Traditions,...

Mary Beard

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, this is "the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work" (Observer). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writ...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Nile: Travelling Downriver Throug...

Toby Alexander Howar Wilkinson

The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In these pages, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to t...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Civil War

Julius Caesar

The Civil War is Julius Caesar's personal account of his war with Pompey the Great--the war that destroyed the five-hundred-year-old Roman Republic. Caesar the victor became Caesar the dictator. In three short books, Caesar describes ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

The Storm Before the Storm: The Begin...

Mike Duncan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Repub...

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Published: Oct 2018

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religi...

A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional" religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine.Pagans explores the rise ...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Apostles and Their Times

Mike Aquilina

Here is an unflinching look at the lives and sacrifices of those first Christians who were given the task of spreading the Gospel to the ends of the earth.Relying on the ancient documents, as well as latest archeological findings and ...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Parthenon Enigma (Vintage)

Joan Breton Connelly

Since the Enlightenment, the Parthenon—the greatest example of Athenian architecture—has been venerated as the definitive symbol of Western democratic values. Here, Joan Breton Connelly challenges this conventional wisdom, drawing...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Sto...

Irving Finkel

When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could hardly believe his luck. What he discovered was a missing piece in the st...

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Published: Mar 2015

Cannae

Adrian Goldsworthy

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating defeatAugust 2, 216 BC was one of history's bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain near the Southern Italian town of Cann...

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Published: May 2019

Roman Warfare

Adrian Goldsworthy

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman EmpireRoman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a ma...

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Published: May 2019

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From ...

Edith Hall

"Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours."―Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy....

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Published: Jul 2015

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lo...

Graham Hancock

This program is read by the author.Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2019

Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold...

Zahi A. Hawass

An unprecedented account of one of civilization's greatest achievements.The great pyramids of Giza have intrigued humanity for thousands of years. Questions about the construction and the purpose of these majestic monuments have exist...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to H...

Thomas R. Martin

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, cul...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2013
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