Dust jacket has wear, tears. Book itself is in fantastic condition! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Mysteries of the Ancient World (National Geographic Society)

#hardcover #history #biographicalnovel #ancienthistory cover is torn but book is in good shape

New York

Pontius Pilate

Joann Fletcher

First US edition 
Ex-library book in VERY good condition with the exception of library stamps on the outside pages and a few throughout.  

Maryland

The Woman Behind the Legend

A world-renowned Egyptologist tells the real story, one that is not obscured by Roman propaganda, Shakespearean tragedy and Hollywood, of the extraordinary woman who realized what was necessary for Egypt's continued prosperity and allowed nothing to stand in her way of achieving it. 25,000 first printing.

Cleopatra the Great

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Explore the Past

Ancient History

Karen Essex

Book is in good reading condition. Dust jacket has a lot of wear and a stain on it. Pages are yellowing around the edges.

High drama and ancient history combine in this novel of the early life of Egypt's infamous queen, at once a beautiful seductress, brilliant politician, and the most powerful ruler of her time.

Kleopatra (First Printing HC)

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Kentucky

In this challenging book Michael Grant sets out to discover the extraordinary epoch between 1000 and 494 BC, a period which he shows was one of the most creative in history. He takes the reader on an intriguing detective trail to understand the world of the early Greeks, a people who are to be found not only within the boundaries of modern Greece, but also in parts of Asia Minor, Italy, Sicily and Russia, scattered in hundreds of independent city-states, united by common blood, customs, language and religion. Michael Grant discusses the economic and social roles of slaves and women, often seen as mysterious, polluting elements in these male-dominated societies, in curious contrast to their powerful role in mythology and literature. In a civilization where leisure was thought to be 'more desirable and more fully an end than business', there was time for outstanding artistic and intellectual developments, notably the pottery of Protogeometric and subsequent epochs and the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet (after half a millenium of illiteracy) which enabled Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to be recorded.

The Rise of the Greeks

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Fair condition. Please see photos. May have some discoloration. B5

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

The Ancient Engineers

Rynearson

Thank you for supporting our non-profit choir and supporting the voices of women and girls!

Minnesota

Collecting Greek Coins

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Wayne G. Sayles

Numismatic Art of the Greek World

This is the second volume in a series [of six volumes] intended to introduce the broad field of ancient coinage to prospective new collectors.

Ancient Coin Collecting

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Debra May Macleod

Florida

A Novel of the Vestal Virgins

There is a saying in Rome: the Tarpeian Rock is close to the capitol. Meaning that even at the height of power, one is never far from a fall. As the Vestalis Maxima, Pomponia has guided her order through the collapse of Rome's Republic and the rise of the Empire. Her wit and piety have elevated the Vestals to a position of unprecedented prestige--and her friendship with Caesar Augustus has afforded her personally a life of political influence and privilege. She has been adored and untouchable. Yet that illusion of safety has been shattered by a ruthless enemy who continues to menace her from the shadows, his vengeful nature escalating to terrifying new heights that threaten not just Pomponia, but all those she cares for--including the emperor himself. Worse, it seems that the gods are also turning against her when the Vestal order suffers an unparalleled crisis that Pomponia must answer for. Struggling to maintain her position, Pomponia looks to her slaves and a renegade charioteer for support as her complex relationship with her protégé, Quintina, brings painful secrets to light. Faced with threats from all directions, Pomponia must be willing to sacrifice everything--even her own morality--to protect her status, the Vestal order, and the lives of those around her. In Empire of Iron, the unflinching conclusion to the Vesta Shadows trilogy, Pomponia realizes that, like Rome itself, she must become even more ruthless than her enemies if she is to survive.

Empire of Iron

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Jean C. Joachim

This is more than just an ordinary collection of dot-to-dots: thanks to the fascinating information accompanying each picture, it carries children back in time to the dynamic culture of Ancient Egypt. As kids connect the dots to see the great images, they ll also learn about the land and the people, the government, the groundbreaking inventions, the music and the art. They ll see what everyday life was like and how the Ancient Egyptians farmed, hunted, and traveled. And youngsters will love meeting such famous figures as King Tutankhamen, visiting the Pyramids, seeing the Sphinx, and even finding out about the pets the Egyptians so treasured."

Ancient Egypt Dot-to-Dot

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#fiction #histfic #novel #spicy #historicalfiction #rome #italy #indie #ancienthistory #romance

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

A Tale of Ancient Rome

"All the drama and sensuality expected of an historical romance, plus a sensitivity to the realities of life in a very different time and world..." --Ursula K. Le Guin

In 406 BC, to seal a tenuous truce, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan nobleman from Veii. Leaving her militaristic homeland, Caecilia is determined to remain true to Roman virtues while living among the sinful Etruscans. But, despite her best intentions, she is seduced by a culture that offers women education, independence, sexual freedom, and an empowering religion.

Enchanted by Veii but terrified of losing ties to Rome, Caecilia performs rites to delay becoming a mother, thereby postponing true entanglement. Yet as she develops an unexpected love for Mastarna, she's torn between her birthplace and the city in which she now lives. As war looms, Caecilia discovers Fate is not so easy to control, and she must choose where her allegiance lies.

The Wedding Shroud is the first book in the Tales of Ancient Rome saga. Subsequent books in the series include The Golden Dice and Call to Juno.

The Wedding Shroud

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Michael Livingston

The Shards of Heaven #2

Alexandria has fallen, and with it the great kingdom of Egypt. Cleopatra is dead. Her children are paraded through the streets in chains wrought of their mother's golden treasures, and within a year all but one of them will be dead. Only her young daughter, Cleopatra Selene, survives to continue her quest for vengeance against Rome and its emperor, Augustus Caesar. To show his strength, Augustus Caesar will go to war against the Cantabrians in northern Spain, and it isn't long before he calls on Juba of Numidia, his adopted half-brother and the man whom Selene has been made to marry -- but whom she has grown to love. The young couple journey to the Cantabrian frontier, where they learn that Caesar wants Juba so he can use the Trident of Poseidon to destroy his enemies. Perfidy and treachery abound. Juba's love of Selene will cost him dearly in the epic fight, and the choices made may change the very fabric of the known world. The Gates of Hell is the follow up to Michael Livingston’s amazing Shards of Heaven, a historical fantasy that reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle.

Gates of Hell

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Pennsylvania

Retells the stories of Greek gods and heroes.

Greek Myths : 2 (Revised Edition, 1986)

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Frances Gies

Joseph Gies

Illinois

The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central role of the church in maintaining social harmony. Though the main focus is on Elton, c. 1300, the Gieses supply enlightening historical context on the origin, development, and decline of the European village, itself an invention of the Middle Ages. Meticulously researched, Life in a Medieval Village is a remarkable account that illustrates the captivating world of the Middle Ages and demonstrates what it was like to live during a fascinating—and often misunderstood—era.

Life in a Medieval Village

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Stacy Schiff

Smoke free home. Ships securely and with care!

Texas

A Life

Cleopatra

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Thucydides

Rex Warner

M. I. Finley

Revised Edition

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

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#hardcover #antiquity #archaeology #anthropology #natgeo #nationalgeographic #ancienthistory #photography

This book includes colored photographs and articles by the National Geographic Society of the ancient world as we are discovering it.

This book is in good condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is faded with small tears and creases around the edges.  Covers are in good shape. Printed in 1985, 224 pp.

Mysteries of the Ancient World

It is a world of power and privilege, secrets and sacred duty. It is the world of ancient Rome. And it is the esteemed Vestal Virgins--priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the home and hearth--who protect the Eternal Flame that protects the Eternal City. Dedicated to a thirty-year vow of chaste service, Priestess Pomponia finds herself swept up in the intrigue, violence, wars, and bedroom politics of Rome's elite--Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian and his maneuvering wife, Livia--all the while guarding the secret affection she has in her heart. But when a charge of incestum--a broken vow of chastity--is made against the Vestal order, the ultimate punishment looms: death by being buried alive in the "Evil Field." In Brides of Rome, Book One in the Vesta Shadows series, Debra May Macleod skillfully re-creates the world of ancient Rome with all its brutality and brilliance, all its rich history and even richer legend. A true page-turner that is as smart as it is compelling, this must-read novel brings the Vestal order to life like never before.

Brides of Rome

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#hardcover #egypt #kingtut #ancienthistory #anthropology #mummy #pharaoh

This slim but colorful book is in fair condition, with a small break in the binding and some pages stiffened. Pages are clean and the book is very readable, with large beautiful photographs. Dust jacket has small tears and warping at the edges. Printed in 1978.

The Last Journey

Photographs of the tomb of Tutankhamun and of artifacts found therein accompany an account of the tomb's discovery, of the treasures within, and of the young pharaoh's life, death, and burial

Tutankhamun

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Christopher Catling

How to study an excavation: a practical book for the amateur archaeologists, with more than 300 photographs, maps and detailed illustrations.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Science and Practice of Studying Excavation Materials and Ancient Sites with 300 Colour Photographs, Maps and Detailed Illustrations

With a total of 300 photographs and illustrative artworks, this is a fantastic reference book for new and experienced archaeologists alike.

Discovering the Past Through Archaeology

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#hardcover #atlas #geography #ancienthistory #antiquity #history #civilization

This book is in good condition, with a little wear to the spine and binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a small tear near the top, and a coffee stain in the upper right that affected both front and back cover (see photo). Printed in 1979 in Great Britain, 61pp.

Text, maps, diagrams, and pictures describe the ancient civilizations of the world.

Atlas of the Ancient World

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Robert Harris

Vermont

A Novel of Ancient Rome

A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the ancient Roman orator from his beginnings as a young lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.

Imperium

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*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading ..".the ever present menace of inundation." - Sir John Marshall, 1931 What is a city? A simple definition is a "largely constructed landscape," and through inferences and comparisons with modern states, a successful ancient city is generally said to have a number of defining characteristics: evidence of political hierarchies; a centralized authority that is simultaneously dependent on the accumulation of resources and the suppression of competitors; the maintenance of continuous negotiation, alliance building, and occasionally costly and risky investments such as warfare; specialized crafts; a hinterland supplying food; and monumental statements of central planning and communal effort, such as the Mesopotamian ziggurats. Mohenjo-daro was the largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the most advanced civilizations to have ever existed, and the best-known and most ancient prehistoric urban site on the Indian subcontinent. It was a metropolis of great cultural, economic, and political importance that dates from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. Although it primarily flourished between approximately 2500 and 1500 BCE, the city had longer lasting influences on the urbanization of the Indian subcontinent for centuries after its abandonment. It is believed to have been one of two capital cities of the Indus Civilization, its twin being Harappa located further north in Punjab, Pakistan. Mohenjo-daro is an enigmatic settlement, which confuses simple definitions of what a city consists of. It has revealed little evidence of palaces, contains few definite religious buildings, and appears to have never been involved in any external or internal military conflict. The inhabitants' writing has not been deciphered, and little is known about their religious and post-mortuary beliefs. Nonetheless, the city's importance is epitomized by its monumental buildings and walls, enormous manmade platforms, innovative architectural techniques, and evidence that they engaged in trade over vast distances, with high-quality artifacts sent from the Indus Valley as far as Mesopotamia and even Africa. Of particular note was their ingenious drainage system -one of the earliest means by which sewage was drained out of the city. No other urban site of similar size had a hydraulic network as complex and effective as that of Mohenjo-daro, and it would only be surpassed thousands of years later by the network of aqueducts in Rome during the third century CE. For centuries this city was believed to have sprung into existence suddenly and without precedent, with a highly standardized system of urban development, art, and architecture that is emulated in contemporary settlements across the Indus River Valley in a phenomenon known as the "Pan-Indus system." Although this view has changed over the last few decades, there exists no definitive hypothesis as to how they grew such a complex urban society so quickly. Fittingly, the city has an equally intriguing and mysterious narrative that explains its decline and eventual disappearance, a tale that gives the site its name: the "Hill of the Dead." The Indus Valley Civilization was forgotten for millennia, until 20th century archaeologists rediscovered and began excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Today only foundations remain, but the site's importance is represented by its UNESCO World Heritage status, awarded in 1980 for being a site of outstanding cultural importance to the common heritage of humanity. Mohenjo-daro: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization looks at the history of the site and the archaeological work on it. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Mohenjo-daro like never before.

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Greek Myths : 2 (Revised Edition, 1986)

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