Ancient

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginnin...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all ...

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal ...

In this pamphlet Jackson sources the pagan origins of Christian doctrine with particular ...

Join award-winning historian Christopher Bellitto on this gripping journey through centur...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetr...

Explore the captivating history of ancient Greece!  The culture and events of G...

Saber-toothed tigers were arguably the most fabled of all the Ice Age creatures. The fear...

Though he couldn’t have known it, the various scholars and scientists that Napoleon...

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps no...

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaini...

It’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without th...

With the fall of the Assyrian empire in 606 B.C., Mesopotamia once more regained her nati...

Giants have existed on the Earth for most of Earth’s history. We are talking about ...

Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is wh...

“Forward, sons of the Greeks,Liberate the fatherland,Liberate your children, your w...

Discover the story of the greatest empire in history. Randy Jackson travels back into the...

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring a...

Ancient Egypt – The Glory of the Pharaohs tells us about civilisation under the pha...

In The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus a...

While he remains far less known than Hannibal, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the man who has ...

The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries ...

Mark Antony’s personal life was almost as storied as his immensely successful polit...

Plutarch begins this biography by stating, “Concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver, in ge...

Alcibiades was a powerful man who made powerful enemies. Within a single war, his loyalti...

A few days before Pericles’ birth, his mother dreamed she gave birth to a lion. Sym...

The Greeks glorified Theseus as the historical founder of Athens. Plutarch’s record...

While the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history’s most important phases, it&r...

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." I...

This is a 3-book bundle, which addresses various subtopics, including but not limited to ...

I have written six other books on ancient civilizations and Giants. This book ties them a...

The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 mya to just over 12,000 years ago, and it...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

Perhaps not surprisingly given how advanced they were in comparison to contemporaries, th...

It was not until the excavations of the 1930s that many of the relics, reliefs, and clay...

A complete handbook about the pyramids of Ancient Egypt during the Pyramid Age. It contai...

The ancient Edomites were just one of the many cultures inhabiting the Levant during the ...

It is difficult to ignore the effortless cool of a saber-toothed tiger. The fanged feline...

The story of Romulus is perhaps the most noteworthy entry in Plutarch’s Parallel Li...

The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousnes...

It is rare to find a single battle that is truly decisive in shaping the course of subse...

The ambitious and fearless emperors who built the legendary Roman Empire from scratch, t...

Except for Cleopatra, no ruler of Ancient Egypt has provoked a greater flow of ink from t...

To many in the ancient world, their gods and goddesses were all around them and could be...

Ancient history is a vast subject and can have you occupied for hours. The sources of anc...

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a compendium of classic texts by one of the...

People associate the story of ancient Jericho with walls, and for those who are Biblical...

Greek mythology influences us today. For instance, did you know that the famous athletic ...

In ancient Egypt, the underpinning concept in law, in theory, was that rich and poor cit...

Along with Egypt, the cultural and geographic region known as Mesopotamia was home to so...