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The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D. by John Bintliff 9781405154192
RRP: £34.95£31.23The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single... -
The Sumerian World by Harriet Crawford 9781138238633
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised... -
Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC-AD 68 by David Braund 9781138781900
RRP: £53.99£46.87The years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history. Yet the sources of this key period, particularly the inscriptions, papyri and coins, are not readily accessible. Crucial new discoveries remain buried in... -
Aetius: Attila's Nemesis by Ian Hughes 9781526778840
RRP: £16.99£12.28In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans,... -
The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Through Britain's Remarkable Recent Archaeology by Francis Pryor 9780007299119
RRP: £10.99£8.29From the author of 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is... -
Ireland's First Settlers: Time and the Mesolithic by Peter Woodman
RRP: £35.00£28.82Ireland's First Settlers tells the story of the archaeology and history of the first continuous phase of Ireland's human settlement. It combines centuries of search and speculation about human antiquity in Ireland with a review of what is known today... -
Popular Culture in Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner 9780745643106
RRP: £18.99£16.87The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman... -
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus by Philippa M. Steele
£25.45From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas of the Mediterranean and Near East. This well-illustrated volume is the... -
Digging for Hitler: The Nazi Archaeologists Search for an Aryan Past by David Barrowclough 9781781555002
RRP: £25.00£18.55* A band of Nazi archaeologists on a secret mission to Tibet* Others searching for Atlantis the 'home of the Nordic race'* Excavations in Czechoslovakia to find 'Germanic culture'* Sacred Sanskrit texts as keys to Nordic roots and Ancient Indian... -
Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion by Nanno Marinatos 9780415619431
RRP: £53.99£46.87A stimulating, provocative and lavishly illustrated analysis of the role of the naked goddess and the mistress of the animals within Greek religion. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Greece.Book InformationISBN... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: £31.00£28.15From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible by Russell E. Gmirkin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus... -
Early China: A Social and Cultural History by Feng Li 9780521719810
RRP: £26.99£20.39'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new... -
The Boxford Mosaic: A Unique Survivor from the Roman Age by Anthony Beeson 9781846743924
RRP: £12.00£2.15The Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350... -
Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe 9780851246499
RRP: £16.00£15.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246499Author V. Gordon ChildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 408g -
Rome's First Frontier: The Flavian Occupation of Northern Scotland by David Woolliscroft 9780752430447
RRP: £27.50£20.26Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall are Britain's best-known Roman frontiers but a more northerly line is also known, on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, which seems to represent the earliest fortified land frontier anywhere in the Roman Empire... -
Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, with the Sumerian Flood Story by Alan R. Millard
RRP: £33.95£30.83The Babylonian flood story of Atra-hasis is of vital importance to ancient Near Eastern and biblical scholars, as well as students of history, anthropology, and comparative religion. Professors Lambert and Millard provide the reader with a detailed... -
Silchester: Life on the Dig by Jenny Halstead 9781909747081
RRP: £14.99£10.77The Roman Town at Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, was a working archaeological dig - the University of Reading Field School - which took place every summer for eighteen years. Taking advantage of the last opportunity to record 'life on the dig' in 2014,... -
Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World's Cosmologies by Laird Scranton 9781620554449
RRP: £12.99£8.18How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies? Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilizations of ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, and China share sacred words and symbols?... -
Manchester: The Hidden History by Mike Nevell 9780752447049
RRP: £20.00£14.71In the first book to deal with the history of Manchester from its Roman foundations to the era of the Industrial revolution, Dr Michael Nevell uses the results of nearly ten years of archaeological excavation to illuminate the fascinating changes that... -
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor 9780691183510
RRP: £25.00£19.18The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine by Noel Lenski
RRP: £34.99£30.49The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of... -
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba 9781612000084
RRP: £25.00£21.56Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world... -
Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature by Michael Vickers
RRP: £135.00£117.28Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael... -
How Compassion Made Us Human: An Archaeology of Stone Age Sentiment by Penny Spikins 9781781593103
RRP: £19.99£14.68Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us... -
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
RRP: £19.99£15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787295Author Thomas AsbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
A Brief History of Stonehenge by Aubrey Burl
£3.39 - £7.40A concise history of the world's greatest stone circle, Stonehenge, by Britain's leading expert. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates... -
The Romans in Scotland by Frances Jarvie
RRP: £5.99£5.10This rewritten and redesigned edition of a popular title in the Scotties series, gives a fascinating glimpse into life at the most northern edge of the Roman Empire. Find out: about life in a Roman fort; how and where Roman soldiers lived in Scotland;... -
War: A History in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
£3.39 - £9.09The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they... -
The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus by Sean McDowell
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. Whilst other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter,... -
The Ancient World 2E by L. E. Snellgrove
£40.25A lively and colourful text which covers the beginnings of civilisation in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China; the Persian Empire and the Hebrews; the Classical world of Greece and Rome with a final chapter on Roman Britain.Book InformationISBN... -
Lilith - The First Eve: Historical & Psychological Aspects of the Dark Feminine by Siegmund Hurwitz 9783856307325
RRP: £36.99£15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307325Author Dr Siegmund HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 372g -
Gregory the Great by John Moorhead 9780415233903
RRP: £37.99£33.38Gregory's life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590 - 604). He is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the long line of popes, and by the late ninth century had come to be known as 'the Great'. Along with Ambrose, Jerome... -
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: £25.00£19.58A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of... -
Horace: Odes Book III by A. J. Woodman
RRP: £25.99£25.45Book 3 of the Odes completes the lyric trilogy which Horace, who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets, published in 23 BC. Arguably his most famous book, it opens with the six so-called 'Roman Odes', those defining texts of the Augustan Age,... -
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field by Timothy Venning 9781783461929
RRP: £12.99£9.09'An astonishingly complete account of this most significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Impeccable research, clear, concise and fascinating maps, and a narrative that persuades you you're an onlooker at the very time these astounding events took... -
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture by Liz Gloyn
£27.46What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study of how post-classical societies use the creatures from... -
A Companion to the Roman Empire by David S. Potter
RRP: £39.95£36.04A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the most recent discoveries. This Companion brings together thirty original essays guiding readers through... -
Who's Who in the Age of Alexander and his Successors: From Chaironeia to Ipsos (338-301 BC) by Waldemar Heckel 9781784386481
RRP: £30.00£20.95A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in Alexander's army to the nobles of the Persian Empire, and... -
A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity by Paul Cartledge 9781350439986
£28.52This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient...