Ancient History & Archaeology

Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...

He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice...

Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past....

Author: Sir Ian RichmondBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1969Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRoman Archaeology And Art: Essays And Studies By Sir Ian Richmond presents a comprehensive...

Author: Pedro De PalolBinding: HardbackPublished: EDICIONES POLIGRAFA, S. A., 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: **Text in Spanish, English, French and German.**Arte Hispánico De La Época Visigoda...

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...

Author: Susan Weber SorosBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: HEAVYJames Athenian Stuart: The Rediscovery Of Antiquity by Susan Weber Soros chronicles the...

Author: B. C. G. ShoreBinding: HardbackPublished: LEONARD HILL [BOOKS] LIMITED, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsStones Of Britain presents a comprehensive survey of the...

Author: Christiane Desroches-NoblecourtBinding: HardbackPublished: New York Graphic Society, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsChristian Jacq's Tutankhamen transports readers to the heart of ancient Egypt, chronicling the dramatic life...

The huge stone circles built in the British Isles and northwest France from 6,500 to 3,500 years ago are among civilization's strangest monuments. Ignored or plundered for centuries, they have...

Author: Peter D'Epiro And Mary Desmond PinkowishBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis engaging non-fiction work presents a fascinating collection of cultural inquiries, inviting readers...

Author: Aharon Kempinski, Ronny ReichBinding: HardbackPublished: Israel Exploration Society, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume presents a comprehensive examination of the built environment of ancient Israel....

Author: Henry SharpeBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 1909Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tanning on top of blockThis scholarly work meticulously reconstructs the ancient geography and early history of...

Author: Edward GibbonBinding: HardbackPublished: BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES - LONDON, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerEdward Gibbon's monumental work, The Decline And Fall Of The...

Leading the way in housing design and marketing, and setting the pattern of Australian detached housing, AVJennings built over 66,000 homes between 1962 and 1982. How this was done with...

Author: Mark GisbourneBinding: HardbackPublished: Hatje Cantz, 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis photographic work circles Rome’s domes and rotundas, revealing the quiet geometry beneath the city’s grandeur. Through carefully composed...

Author: Jacquetta HawkesBinding: HardbackPublished: David & Charles, 1978Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: in overall very good condition; some rubbing and slight mildewing on edges of...

Author: Elisha Linder And Avner RabanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative volume, Marine Archaeology, chronicles the fascinating discipline of underwater excavation, presenting a comprehensive...

Author: Paul T. HowellBinding: HardbackPublished: EXETER CITY COUNCIL AND THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: little signs of wear; pages in good conditionThis academic...

Author: Michael GreenhalghBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe scholarly work The Survival Of Roman Antiquities In The Middle Ages presents a meticulous historical account of...

Author: Philippe DioléBinding: HardbackPublished: SIDGWICK AND JACKSON LTD, 1954Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: remainder markingsThis captivating non-fiction work, 4,000 Years Under The Sea, transports readers to the depths...

Author: Christopher Taylor And Richard MuirBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical work, Visions Of The Past, by Christopher...

Author: Amedeo MaiuriBinding: HardbackPublished: ISTITUTO GEOGRAFICO DE AGOSTINI s.p.a. - NOVARA, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Damage along spine of dust jacketThis gripping historical thriller chronicles the final...

Author: Stuart PiggottBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson London, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-faded DJ, foxed edges.This scholarly work chronicles the evolving perceptions of...

Author: Leonard MosleyBinding: HardbackPublished: EYRE METHUEN, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical account chronicles the extraordinary true story of a...

Author: Mary MackeyBinding: HardbackPublished: ANDRE DEUTSCH, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical fiction epic, The Last Warrior Queen, transports readers to a world...

Author: Osmar WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: ANGUS AND ROBERTSON LTD, 1945Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerThis vivid war memoir chronicles Australian...

Author: Richard GirlingBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann/Quixote Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the enduring saga of Ielfstan's Place, tracing its evolution from the Paleolithic...

Author: Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Kt.Binding: HardbackPublished: The Religious Tract Society, 1926Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scarce w/ DJ. Some marks and...

Author: C. W. CeramBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Limited in association with Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1952Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: internally...

Author: William J. Anderson, R. Phené Spiers, Revised And Rewritten By William Bell DinsmoorBinding: HardbackPublished: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1927Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and...

Author: J. C. StobartBinding: HardbackPublished: BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA seminal work of historical non-fiction, The Grandeur That Was Rome chronicles the rise and...

Author: PlautusBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: faded jacket, tear on frontPlautus, a master of ancient Roman...

Author: John LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Epworth Press, 1948Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Reading copy with minimal markings in grey lead. This distinguished...

From Stonehenge and Avebury to 18th-century pleasure gardens, some surprising Victorian outbreaks and the 20th century's landscapes of desire, Cathy Tuck shows how the natural cycle of fertility has been...

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...

The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...

The book titled The Fall of the Roman Empire by the author Michael Grant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...

Theodosius II (AD 408-450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its...

'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...

An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome's ever-changing political boundaries Roman art and architecture is...

In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek...

Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized,...

Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...

With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...