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From 1827 Henry Rawlinson, fearless soldier, sportsman and imperial adventurer of the first rank, spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and ... More

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This volume publishes the papers given at a seminar in memory of Vladmir G. Lukonin held at the British Museum in 1993. Four papers were delivered by ... More

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This volume explores the trading and cultural links between two of the most brilliant civilizations of the ancient world, Iran and Mesopotamia, from ... More

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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid ... More

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First published in two volumes between 1907 and 1908, this major work by the Scottish biblical scholar and geographer Sir George Adam Smith (1856 ... More

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The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome - Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him - have profoundly ... More

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Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Augustan ... More

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This is a definitive account of the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180. His correspondence with his tutor Fronto ... More

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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye ... More

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Like a sequence of open windows on the treasures of history and art, the pages in these volumes take the reader through the great Egyptian Museum in ... More

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In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' ... More

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Once descrined as 'a golden tool for taking examinations at any level', this history has previously been available only in two separate volumes, one ... More

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A historical and cultural atlas of ancient Egypt, illustrated with full-colour maps, photographs and artwork. The landscape and climate of Egypt had ... More

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Originally published in 1987, this book presents a portrait of Jesus's life, and throws new light on such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod Antipas, ... More

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For centuries in the Near East archaeological evidence has been turning up of a major flood in the area's ancient history. In 1995, two marine ... More

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From the mid 6th century BC, Persian kings ruled over peoples and territory stretching from Northern Libya to Central Asia. Incorporating the ancient ... More

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