Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Eu...

'An erudite and fascinating work' Jan Morris, New York Times 'An artful combination of history, archaeology and the imagination' Mary Beard, New Y...

Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now N...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge ...

One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 5468) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled ...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the omphalos--the center or navel--of the ancient world for more than 1000...

For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and...

Despite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare. This new and essential publication fro...

By the early first century BC, the Roman Republic had already carved itself a massive empire and was easily the most powerful state in the Mediterr...

Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India ...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, ...

Challenges current orthodox views about the origins of Roman law Bringing together a team of international experts from different subject areas -- ...