Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...

This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mytholo...

On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece ...

Religious practice in ancient Egypt is often studied from two distinct and separate perspectives: temple-based religious practice, and so-called pe...

Ancient Greek ethnographiesdescriptions of other peoplesprovide unique resources for understanding ancient environmental thought and assumptions, a...

For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ...

Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew is an indispensable publication for biblical scholars, whose interpretations of scriptures must engage the dates when ...

Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic per...

The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopatamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabic and Kassite empires, and...

This monograph is based on the study of 1,341 antler and bone objects and 2,400 fragments of antler and bone waste from excavations in Ipswich betw...

Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin AwardTells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a...