Ancient History: to c 500 CE

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a questionwhen?and is brimmin...

Located in the Supe Valley of Peru and dating to 3000 BC, Caral is the earliest civilization in the Americas. Although Caral predates the Incas and...

In the popular consciousness, manipulative speech pervades politicized discourse, and the eloquence of politicians is seen as invariably rooted in ...

Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of ...

A highly illustrated account of a decisive victory for the Romans under their Caesar Julian against the Alemanni and their leader Chnodomar.Civil w...

The assumption is that most of what we know about the Romans and their history comes from Roman and Greek historians. While this is true up to a po...

This remarkable and original introduction to Greek civilization starts with a tour of Greece, and uses real sights which you can visit today as a s...

For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north-western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Though it was small,...

One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable...

The Roman Empire was a spectacular polity of unprecedented scale which stretched from Scotland to Sudan and from Portugal to Persia. It survived fo...

In 53 BC, Roman and Parthian forces collided in a confrontation that would reshape the geopolitical map and establish a frontier between East and W...

Virtually unknown today, John Henry Haynes (1849-1910) may be regarded as the father of American archaeological photography. His travels took him f...

Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal...

When the Romans came to Britain in AD 43, they brought a new style of domestic life, one that better-off Britons soon copied.  This informative gui...

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity whose life and words still speak to us today. His Meditations remains one o...

From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to womens health and the intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-nee...

The area of the Judean Foothills the biblical Shephelah has in recent years become one of the most intensively excavated regions in the world. Nu...

Did you know that the word 'prestige' derives from the Latin word for 'illusion'? Or that 'infantry' stems from a Latin word meaning one who could ...

Life in Ancient Britain journeys through the ancient worlds of our ancestors: how they lived, how they shaped the landscape we know today, and how ...

What is the origin of the stories of the Round Table, of Excalibur and the Holy Grail, of Sir Launcelot and Guinevere? And where was Camelot? King ...

The Ancient Egyptians continue to fascinate people from all walks of life. Of all the knowledge we have of their culture, the rituals connected to ...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...

Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a brilliant politician, a successful general, an accomplished...