History
The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece's Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Forward, sons of the Greeks,Liberate the fatherland,Liberate your children, your women,The altars of the gods of your fathers,And the graves of your ancestors:Now is the...
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The Ancient Bosnian Pyramids: The History and Mystery Over the Controversial Pyramids in Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Includes pictures *Includes theories and explanations regarding the structures *Includes online resources for further reading “Ten years from now nobody will remember my critics, and a million people will come to see what we have done.” - Semir Osmanagich There...
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The Ancient Egyptian City of Thebes: The History and Legacy of the Capital that Became Luxor
*Includes pictures*Describes the history of the city and the layout of its famous temple complexes*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Let [Agamemnon] offer me the wealth…of Egyptian Thebes, the richest city in the...
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The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization's Biggest Cities: The History and Legacy of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsWhen one thinks of the world’s first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some of the first to come to mind, but if the focus then...
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The Ancient Israelites and Egypt: The History of the Egyptian Enslavement of the Jews, the Exodus, and Relations With Israel
The story of the ancient Israelites in Egypt is one of the most famous stories in the world, and one of the most contentious from a historical standpoint. Today, most people know about the relationship between the ancient Israelites and...
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The Ancient Kingdoms of Africa: The History and Legacy of the African Continent's Most Prominent Kingdoms in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsAfrica may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern...
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The Ancient Libyans and Nubians: The History and Legacy of Ancient Egypt's Most Prominent Neighbors in Africa
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsDuring the several centuries that ancient Egypt stood as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, civilizations of the ancient world, conflicts with its...
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The Ancient Libyans: The Mysterious History of Egypt's Neighbors to the West during Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary Egyptian accounts of the Libyans and the wars against them*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe ancient Egyptians are well known today for the enemies they kept. In their texts, the...
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The Ancient Lydians: The History and Legacy of the Iron Age Kingdom of Lydia
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Lydians from ancient historians and contemporary records *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “When all these nations had been added to the Lydian empire, and...
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The Ancient Nubians: The History of One of the Oldest Civilizations in Africa
During the several centuries that ancient Egypt stood as one of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world, conflicts with its neighbors often played a central role in hieroglyphic texts and art from temples and tombs. The three primary enemies...
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The Ancient Olympic Games: The History and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Most Famous Sports Event
*Includes pictures.*Includes ancient accounts about the Games.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”-...
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The Ancient Roman Sieges of Jerusalem and Masada: The History of the First Jewish-Roman War's Most Famous Battles
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of the battles *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE is arguably the most important event in Jewish history. First, it was the central battle in the First Jewish-Roman...
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The Ancient World's Most Influential Philosophers: The Lives and Works of Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero
*Includes pictures*Includes a table of contentsMany people argue that Confucius is the most influential person of all time, and if having a significant effect on the greatest number of people is the criterion, he may very well be. China is...
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The Ancient World's Most Mysterious Religious Cults: The History of the Cult of the Apis Bull, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Mysteries of Mithras
Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria...
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The Anglo-Zulu War: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Conflict with the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa
“He is Shaka the unshakeable, Thunderer-while-sitting, son of Menzi He is the bird that preys on other birds, The battle-axe that excels over other battle-axes in sharpness, He is the long-strided pursuer, son of Ndaba, Who pursued the sun and...
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The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device
*Includes pictures*Chronicles the discovery and theories over the mechanism's origins and capabilities*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents"It multiplies, divides and subtracts, but you can't program it." - Michael EdmundsDiscovering ancient shipwrecks hasn’t...
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The Antonine Plague: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire's Worst Pandemic
*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“[A]s the reign of Marcus Aurelius forms a turning point in so many things, and above all in literature and art, I have no doubt that...
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The ANZAC: The History and Legacy of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the 20th Century
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingA land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge...
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The Apache and Comanche: The History and Legacy of the Southwest's Most Famous Warrior Tribes
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tribes written by whites and tribesmen *Includes a bibliography for further reading From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of...
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