Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the worlds most dynamic, successful sup...

England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are hist...

This is the history of that most sacred vessel that is named by men the Holy Grail, wherein the precious blood of Our Saviour was received on the d...

The Roman Army reigned supreme for over 1,000 years. From Britain to Syria, and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa, there is abundant eviden...

Over 2600 years ago the Parian poet Archilochus wrote we chased seven and killed them.. the thousand of us. In all parts of the world, and in all c...

Over 2600 years ago the Parian poet Archilochus wrote we chased seven and killed them.. the thousand of us. In all parts of the world, and in all c...

When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce and proud warrior society known as the Picts, who despite the...

Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him the c...

This research study offers new theories of interpretation and analysis of the Gaelic sources dealing with the peopling of the Europe's Atlantic fro...

Telling the story of the Maya peoples from their earliest beginnings to the start of the 20th century, this book divides the 3,000 year time spa...

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philoso...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWaterstone's Book of the Month, 2018Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-TiltmanMail on Sunday's the Best Paperback, 2018A s...

One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. The men were intent on demons...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female war...

This two-volume survey of ancient Egypt explores all the main sites, temples and tombs, and investigates how mythology and religion underpinned thi...

The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban ...

On 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive limes and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking...

We think of Ancient Greece as the birthplace of democracy and a breeding ground for pioneering philosophers, but what was life really like in a Gre...

In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a...

The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than ...

This study offers a concise survey of Western Civilisation from the Stone Age through the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in AD 476. Three s...