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and scope of the ancient Greek city-state Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Peter Brown A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most ...

After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched ...

What has roughly 38,000 words over 234 pages and yet is not just unreadable but indecipherable? The ancient Voynich ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories ...

and you have a sense of the farrago this book contains. “The Western traditions of ancient world history rest on the 18th-century foundations established by the Enlightenment,” Murray asserts ...

ABSTRACT.This contribution examines Chinese engagement with the maritime world, specifically the greater Indian Ocean ... Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) To save this book to ...

An ancient Jewish text has been discovered and returned 80 years after it was looted from a Hungarian seminary during the occupation of the Nazis in 1944.

Best books on Roman history, from Romulus and Remus to the decline of Empire - A curated list for those who can’t stop ...

William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road places India, not China or Europe, as the global wellspring of learning and power.

In “The Muse of History” the author focuses on a particular obsession of Western historians over the past three centuries: ...

Drawing on ancient history, archaeology ... Covering regions from the Greco-Roman world to Egypt and the ancient Near East, and from Central Asia to East Asia, our books illuminate new ways of ...