Ancient Religions & Mythologies

What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities? Like public advertisements lini...

Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of...

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial lifeand even invented real automated machines The fi...

'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize to...

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE Ch...

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her...

This book offers a clear and concise historical overview of the major religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean world existing from the time...

A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the ...

Before the conversion of Europe to Christianity in the Middle Ages, Germanic tribes roamed the continent, plundering villages and waging battles to...

The Egyptian Star Oracle is the first of its kind: an oracle deck that uses only authentic Egyptian artwork, spells, translations, names, and meani...

Chinese mythology has been passed down in written and oral form over many millennia, emerging from a range of cultural traditions that often have t...