3,376円 In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC. Sweeney s book argues that the dating of ancient history is often much more tenuous than most people realise, and t...

1,400円 The doomed love affair that united Ancient Rome & Egypt. The immortal lovers of novels, plays and films, Antony and Cleopatra were reviled by contemporary Romans, but history has transformed them into tragic heroes. Somewhere between their vilification by Augustus and the judgement of a later age...

6,590円 This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally. Amheida w...

12,933円 This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it cov...

612円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE LECTURE IーEGYPT, BABYLON, AND PALESTINE, AND SOME TRADITIONAL ORIGINS LECTURE II ー DELUGE STORIES AND THE NEW SUMERIAN VERSION I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MYTH, AND ACCOUNT OF CREATION II. THE ANTEDILUVIAN CITIES III. THE COUNCIL OF T...

164円 The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: The Nile and Egypt, The Gods of Egypt, and The Legendary History of Egypt. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 June 30, 1916) was a French Egyptologist... Among his best-known publica...

2,786円 In 701 BC, the powerful Assyrian army laid siege to Jerusalem, threatening the Hebrew kingdom with destruction. What saved the City of David? The Bible credits divine intervention. Modern scholars have long speculated that a plague spread through the ranks of the Assyrian soldiers, forcing them t...

11,109円 First published in 2005. The working and intellectual biography of the great archaeologist Flinders Petrie, who was one of the founding fathers of Egyptology, will inevitably be of interest to all those involved with ancient Egypt. Here we have accounts of the research, the observations and the w...

92,034円 First published in 2000. The kings of ancient Egypt’s first five dynasties were responsible for the creation of a unique and enduring civilisation, epitomised by its most impressive monuments, the pyramids. Yet what do we know about the reigns of these kings? Excavations have revealed much, but E...

164円 The twelve-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria, Tiglath-Pileser III and the Organization of hteAssyrian Empire from 745 to 722 BC, and Sargon of Assyria.. According to Wikipedia: "Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23...

300円 Der deutsche Ägyptologe Richard Lepsius unternahm im Auftrag des preußischen Königs Wilhelm IV. in den Jahren 1842 bis 1845 eine Forschungsreise nach Ägypten, um die Altertümer dieses Landes zu untersuchen und zu erfassen. Ihn begleiteten die Brüder Ernst und Max We...

16,914円 In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are generally known today as the '...