Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The Human Factor establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania ...

Roman contract law has profoundly influenced subsequent legal systems throughout the world, but is inarguably an important subject in its own right...

Amin Amers 1999 study of the Gateway of Ramesses IX at Karnak, Egypt, is presented here in a facsimile reissue. The Gateway is a little-known major...

Human beings, the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is th...

Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aestheticsShows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of bo...

Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using c...

The emergence of Rome as an imperial power. In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into t...