Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrough...

Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic c...

The Hittites, one of the most powerful peoples of the ancient Near East, successfully challenged all other nations, including almighty Egypt, from ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Hagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints and martyrs and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular, perhaps the mo...

Your ticket from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. A readable, one-volume introduction placing the entire New ...

As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale ...

The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powe...

The ancient cultures of East Asia, the Near and Middle East and the Mediterranean were characterised by spectacular scientific findings and advance...

Horaces book of Sermones (also called Satires) was his first published work. Rather than a collection of satirical sideswipes, as the genre might h...

An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt, now in ArabicAround three thousand ...

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armo...

The fourth volume in the Amheida series, Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) present...

Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians...