Ancient History & Archaeology

Author: Leonard WoolleyBinding: HardbackPublished: The KING PENGUIN Books, PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS LIMITED, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis...

Author: John WilkinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: No markingsJohn Wilkinson's Jerusalem As Jesus Knew It: Archaeology As Evidence presents a meticulous archaeological reconstruction...

Author: John Ward-PerkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical thriller chronicles the final days of the ancient Roman city of...

Author: James B. PritchardBinding: PaperbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1978Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work chronicles the meticulous archaeological efforts undertaken...

Author: Francesca Boitani, Maria Cataldi, Marinella PasquinucciBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell London, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsEtruscan Cities presents a comprehensive overview of the ancient Etruscan civilization...

Author: R. J. ForbesBinding: HardbackPublished: E. J. Brill, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markStudies In Ancient Technology: Volume Ix by R. J. Forbes presents a meticulous examination of...

Author: Edward GibbonBinding: HardbackPublished: BISON BOOKS, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsEdward Gibbon's monumental work, Gibbon's Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Abridged And Illustrated, chronicles the...

Author: Edmund Capon, Jackie Menzies, And Yang YangBinding: PaperbackPublished: Art Exhibitions Australia LimitedCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, Imperial...

Author: Glen GardenBinding: PaperbackPublished: HEINEMANN EDUCATIONALCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUnknown

Author: R. Allen Brown; P.E. CurnowBinding: PaperbackPublished: Her Majesty's Stationery OfficeCondition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative historical account, Tower Of London,...

Author: Wilhelm/BaynesBinding: HardbackPublished: BOLLINGEN SERIES XIX PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAn ancient oracle and philosophical guide offers insight into change, balance, and the hidden...

Author: AristotleBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAristotle's Politics presents a foundational treatise on political philosophy, meticulously analyzing the origins and structures of the state. This seminal work...

Author: James W. ErmatingerBinding: HardbackPublished: Greenwood, 2004Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: ex-library with stamps on spine and stickered...

Author: Paul VeyneBinding: HardbackPublished: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work, A History Of Private Life: From Pagan Rome To...

Author: Victor D Hanson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly...

Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian...

Author: Prof Steven Mithen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this really new Past societies and...

Author: Fiona Robertson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 One of the Telegraph's 'Greatest Books of 2025' 'Superb' Telegraph 'There's a real sense of peace and magic in this beautiful...

Author: Emily Rath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is...

In 1621, fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert placed by the Virginia Company of London calling for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make...

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Henry thinks he's done with time travel. He's also fed up with his little sister and wants a break. But then he finds himself sent back to Ancient Rome, living...

Two souls bound together for eternity but lost in time. Until now. Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day...

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Experience at first hand the spectacular, brutal life and savage death of the most iconic figure of ancient Rome.This manual will take the reader from the first faltering steps over...

Many ancient writers - from Pliny and Plutarch to Xenophon were incorrigible collectors of miscellany, lively anecdotes and after-dinner jokes. Here, writer and historian Philip Matyszak brings together his favourite...

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...

A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland. The ancient Roman empire was the...

From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in theIliad, begins an incredible...

Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein , introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this...

A wide-ranging philosophical and practical guide to incorporating the wisdom of ancient philosophers into daily modern life. How can I live a good life? Who do I want to become?...

Sanskrit has been taught in two ways: the age-old Indian technique involves learning language through the central, sacred texts; the formal Western methodology teaches the alphabet, declensions, grammar, and vocabulary...

334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world....

Introducing Gladiator School, a new series of novels set in a world of blood, sweat and sand, heated battles and fierce loyalty and fiercer rivalry. Young Lucius's privileged life is...

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The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D....

'At last, a history of the Roman state as it has always been crying out to be told, and never has been!' RODERICK BEATON The greatest empire in Western history...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY Longlisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our...

' A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in...

????? BORN TO RULE. BLESSED BY FIRE. BROKEN BY DESIRE... DISCOVER THE NEW ROMANTASY PHENOMENON ????? HOW MUCH IS SHE WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO CLAIM HER THRONE? A powerfully blessed...

????? BORN TO RULE. BLESSED BY FIRE. BROKEN BY DESIRE... DISCOVER THE NEW ROMANTASY PHENOMENON ????? HOW MUCH IS SHE WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO CLAIM HER THRONE? A powerfully blessed...

A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War , paired with a brilliant introduction on how to...

**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POMPEII** 'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'An essential read for anyone interested in this extraordinary...

Two souls bound together for eternity but lost in time. Until now. Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day...

With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at...

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath , historian Josiah Osgood...