Frozen Tombs of Siberia - The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen by Sergei I. Rudenko

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Moses - Pharaoh of Egypt : The Mystery of Akhenaten Resolved by Ahmed Osman

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THE LIVING PAST : THE GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF MANKIND by IVAR LISSNER

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Arena - The Story of the Colosseum by John Pearson

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In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.As well as his vivid account of the erection of the Colosseum, Mr Pearson discusses the origins of death spectacles and their evolution into highly organized games intended to enhance imperial prestige and provide the populace with an effective substitute for politics and war. 'Butchered to make a Roman holiday', the victims of this lust for slaughter were slaves and criminals, the human surplus of their day, coached for an almost certain death. One chapter highlights the perverted death-wish of many early would-be martyrs and decisively establishes that there is no evidence for the death of a single Christian martyr in the Colosseum.The book concludes with a brief survey of the building's subsequent history; looted and despoiled yet still the embodiment of Rome's spirit and greatness, it became a sublime romantic ruin, now exposed by slum-clearance as a gigantic traffic island. Mr Pearson is acutely aware of the violence that was endemic in Roman society, and in his shrewd analysis he draws disturbing parallels with the twentieth-century situation. ...Show more

Triumph and Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Immortal Emperors by Alexander Canduci

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Triumph and Tragedy provides a superbly illustrated, chronological history of all the Roman Emperors who ever ruled. The book begins in 27 BCE with Augustus, Emperor of Rome, and follows the various manifestations of the empire through to Byzantine Constantinople and to Germany, ending with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire and the last (Holy) Roman Emperor, Francis II, in 1806. It is comprehensive in coverage, including both 'official' emperors and usurpers. Each chapter looks at a specific period of Roman imperial history, focusing not only on the emperors' reigns, but also on the rulers as people, discussing their personality and motivation and bringing them to life for a modern audience. ...Show more

THE SPANISH INQUISITION by HENRY KAMEN

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THE BLACK DEATH by PHILIP ZIEGLER

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The Great Deeds of Superheroes by Maurice Saxby; Robert R. Ingpen

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HISTORY BEGINS AT SUMER by S N KRAMER

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Palaces of Minoan Crete by Gerald Cadogan

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The Minoan architecture of ancient Crete is analyzed and its attempts to solv the problems of earthquakes, heat, and light are compared with modern techniques.

GOGMAGOG : THE BURIED GIANTS by T C LETHBRIDGE

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ARCHAEOLOGY IN CENTRAL EUROPE : THE FIRST 500 YEARS by KAREL SKLENAR

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