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Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
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This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome provides a unique look at a civilization whose art, literature, law, and ...
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The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
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The bestselling authors of "Nelsons Trafalgar" return to the Napoleonic War in this epic narrative of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815, a period marked at the beginning by Napoleons seizing power and at the end by the War of 1812. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece
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Encompasses all aspects of ancient Greek life-from the beginnings of the Minoan civilization in Crete to the defeat by the Roman world in 30 BC. Coverage includes government, religion, music, art and visual culture, education and daily life.
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The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs
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The true story of Jean Francois Champollion, who began his quest to crack the hieroglyphic code while still a school boy in France in the early 19th century, is presented. Beginning with the Rosetta Stone, Champollion unlocked the secrets of ancient Egypt. photo insert.
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Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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Imperial adventurer Henry Rawlinson triumphed in deciphering the lost languages of Persia and Babylonia, becoming a celebrity and intrepid archeologist who solved some of the greatest mysteries of ancient history while proving to the astonished Victorian public that people and places in the Old Testament really existed.
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Dictionary of Roman Religion
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Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in gernal texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due in this unique reference work. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman religious life in fact encompassed a tremendous variety of deities, rites, and belief systems. ...
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The keys of Egypt : the race to read the hieroglyphs
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A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a ...
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The handbook of British archaeology
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First published in 1982 as THESAURUS OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY, this covers all types of finds from bones to pottery, armour to jewellery, providing a detailed picture of every major period from the Palaeolithic to the medieval. The techniques of surveying, excavating and dating are explained and definitions given of the terms used in modern study.
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An Introduction to Roman Mythology
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
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The true story of Jean Francois Champollion, who began his quest to crack the hieroglyphic code while still a school boy in France in the early 19th century, is presented. Beginning with the Rosetta Stone, Champollion unlocked the secrets of ancient Egypt. photo insert.
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Archaeological Illustration
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This volume, originally published in 1989, is intended as a practical guide to archaeological illustration, from drawing finds in the field to technical studio drawing for publication. It is also an invaluable reference tool for the interpretation of illustrations and their status as archaeological evidence. The book's ten chapters start from ...
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Introduction to the Romans
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Reveals the reality behind many of the myths and focuses on various aspects of everyday life.
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An Introduction to Archeaology
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An introduction to archaeology
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Abandoned places
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A Thesaurus of British Archaeology
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The little book of Egyptian hieroglyphs
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Egyptian hieroglyphs are the subject of endless fascination to many. This book aims to make the basics of hieroglyphs easy to understand. Explaining briefly the history and development of the language, it then gives the Egyptian alphabet and shows how simple it is to spell your own name using hieroglyphs. Also included is an introduction to the ...
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Ancient Greece : a handbook
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Who were the Titans? How did the Greek alphabet evolve? What sort of weapons did the Greek warriors use? Three millennia of life in ancient Greece, from the advent of the Minoan civilization through the rise and fall of numerous city states, the emergence of democracy and the huge expansion of the Greek world under Alexander the Great to the Roman ...
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A field guide to Somerset archaeology
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Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy
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The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. They cast a long shadow, with millions of ...
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The archaeology of the London Borough of Merton : an interim survey
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Lesley Adkins, Surrey Archaeological Society, South-west London Archaeological Unit
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Ev-Romains Culture Et Mythes
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Adkins Lesley
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