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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more)

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Daily Life of the Etruscans
Daily Life of the Etruscans
by Jacques Heurgon
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The Etruscans were the most important--and remarkable--of the peoples who inhabited early Italy. But when the Romans gained supremacy, the distinctive Etruscan culture gradually disappeared. This masterly re-creation of the lives of a now-forgotten... (read more)

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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
by Jean Bottero
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Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the... (read more)

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Ancient Near East Vol.1 an Anthology (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
Ancient Near East Vol.1 an Anthology (Princeton Studies on the Near East)
by James B Pritchard
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Writings from the cultures of biblical times supplement the Old Testament in documenting the history of the ancient Near East.... (read more)

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
by E A Wallis Budge
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The most famous of all ancient Egyptian texts?with an introduction by one of the most celebrated Egyptologists of our time AMONG THE MOST WIDELY read and studied of all ancient writings, The Egyptian Book of the Dead consists of funerary texts that... (read more)

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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome
The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome
by Peter Connolly
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In this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life through the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. For the first time ever, all the evidence has been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct the... (read more)

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The Maya
The Maya
by Peter Schmidt
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Early in their civilization, the Maya emerged as undisputed masters of astronomy, chronology, the recording of history, and mathematics. By A.D. 300 they had developed a system of hieroglyphic writing, a calendar, and the first major works of stone... (read more)

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Ancient Near East Volume 2
Ancient Near East Volume 2
by James Ben Pritchard
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This volume makes available some of the most important discovered source material for the historian of the ancient Near East.... (read more)

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Historical Atlas of Celtic World (10 Edition)
Historical Atlas of Celtic World (10 Edition)
by Ian Barnes
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  This book provides a comprehensive history of the Celts, supported by accurate, detailed maps demonstrating the movements of the people and the major military campaigns and conflicts of the Celts, with engaging, informative text.  The Celts... (read more)

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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
by Zainab Bahrani
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Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical recordsof violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqirituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologiesof warfare that formed... (read more)

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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
by Mary Miller
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The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion. Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya... (read more)

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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Isreal and the Origin of Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein
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Is the Bible true? For the last hundred and fifty years a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Hebrew scriptures. Recent dramatic discoveries of biblical archaeology have cast serious doubt on the familiar account of ancient Israel... (read more)

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The Art of Mesoamerica, Fourth Edition (World of Art)
The Art of Mesoamerica, Fourth Edition (World of Art)
by Mary Ellen Miller
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Mary Ellen Miller evocatively surveys the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations—Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztecas well as those of their less well-known contemporaries. Their pyramids and palaces, jades and brightly... (read more)

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In Search of Trojan War
In Search of Trojan War
by Michael Wood
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Tales of Troy and its heroes—Achilles and Hector, Paris and the legendary beauty Helen—have fired the human imagination for 3,000 years. With In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age... (read more)

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Penguin Historical Atlas of Vikings (95 Edition)
Penguin Historical Atlas of Vikings (95 Edition)
by John Haywood
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Viking marauders struck fear into the hearts of ninth-century European peasants, monks and nobles alike for two centuries, but the Vikings were more than seaborne terrorists. This atlas illustrates their influence extending from the Holy Land to... (read more)

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C Mann
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more)

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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
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In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change — and how it has affected the rise and fall of civilizations. Perfect for fans of history and the environment alike.... (read more)

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In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
by Daniel Meyerson
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“In the tradition of the great excavators, Meyerson has unearthed untold treasures–the story behind the story, and the one behind that, too. With its cast of colorful characters–tomb robbers, peasant diggers, millionaire dilettantes... (read more)

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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen
Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen
by Joyce Tyldesley
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The classic account of Egypt's most famous queennow fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family... (read more)

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Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Mertz
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An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world—the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz... (read more)

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