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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
$20.00 Add to cartTrue Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.
This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after bein- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250846722
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
$27.95 Add to cartMining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the… [more below]
- Author: Bayley, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585090700
- Language: English
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Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews–A History
$23.99 Add to cart“Carroll, whose love for the Catholic Church . . . is not only matched by a lovingly critical eye. . . but an urgent plea that Rome set another course.” — Boston Globe
In this bold and moving book sur
- Author: Carroll, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0618219080
- Language: English
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
$30.00 Read moreSince the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next–a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform–borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought ove
- Author: Crawford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324037040
- Language: English
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Demetrius: Sacker of Cities
$18.00 Read moreA portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274165
- Language: English
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
$29.95 Read moreA captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism–gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herr- Author: Herrin, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143692
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 3 (of Six): Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper
$100.00 Add to cartThe first three volumes of the most famous historical chronicle in English, in hardcover in a gorgeously illustrated box set, with an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Edward Gibbon… [more below]- Series: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1902
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0679423087
- Language: English
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By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
$23.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he i… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Worthington, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614641
- Language: English
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The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
$18.99 Add to cartFrom classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes–and the saga … [more below]
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1501198025
- Language: English
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The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kelly, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0192803913
- Language: English
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
$34.95 Add to cartWho are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible, lushly illustrated account palaeoarchaeologist Pau
- Series: Rediscovered
- Author: Pettitt, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252637
- Language: English
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The Ancient Orishas
$14.44 Add to cartThe Ancient Orishas
Make no mistake, the sacred knowledge and energy of our ancestors thrives today. Keep reading to find out more…
Are you constantly fascinated by the spirituality of indigenous trib
- Author: Asikiwe, Jade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1087896029
- Language: English
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Amduat: The Great Awakening
$40.00 Add to cartThe Egyptian Amduat, “Book of the Hidden Chamber”, is a fascinating text from ancient Egypt that describes the journey of the deceased. It tells of a twelve hour long voyage beyond death through a mys
- Author: Kreikamp, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1914153057
- Language: English
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The Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials, and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland
$19.95 Read moreThis revealing text describes the exciting discovery and deciphering of the 5,000-year-old stone chambers and standing stones of pre-Celtic Ireland. At midwinter sunrise, Martin Brennan and his resear… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0892815094
- Language: English
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The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
$6.94 Add to cartThe Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is to conduct ones life and how to treat his fellow man
- Author: Gunn, Battiscombe G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: January 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1684114969
- Language: English
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome
$36.95 Add to cartThis superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna
- Author: Warry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127945
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King’s Tomb
$37.50 Add to cartIn 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried alongside the king’s mummy, they found more than 5,000 unique objects, from the
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0393531708
- Language: English
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Mesoamerican History: A Captivating Guide to Four Ancient Civilizations that Existed in Mexico – The Olmec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec Civiliza
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Mesoamerica, then keep reading…
Four captivating manuscripts in one book:
- Olmecs: A Captivating Guide to the Earliest Known Major Ancient Civiliza
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483158
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
$19.99 Add to cartThe “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were … [more below]
- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501136712
- Language: English
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A Handbook of Norse Mythology
$9.95 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of primitive Scandinavian lore, this book recounts the birth and ascendancy of the gods, with concise profiles of the chief deities and their associated myths.
- Author: Mortensen, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 115
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 048643219X
- Language: English
