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| ancient history documentary series: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard, 2015-11-09 New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, magisterial history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains relevant to people many centuries later (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome with passion and without technical jargon and demonstrates how a slightly shabby Iron Age village rose to become the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life (Economist) in a way that makes your hair stand on end (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this highly informative, highly readable (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come. |
| ancient history documentary series: Testament John Romer, 1988 In telling the story of the Bible's birth and journey from ancient East to modern West, Romer explores legendary characters of the Old and New Testaments and depicts biblical sites whose names have resounded throughout history. (A) panorama worth viewing.--New York Times Book Review. Illustrations. |
| ancient history documentary series: The seven kings of Rome Livy, 1872 |
| ancient history documentary series: The Western Tradition: From the ancient world to Louis XIV Eugen Weber, 1990 |
| ancient history documentary series: America Before Graham Hancock, 2019-04-23 The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient New World cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected Old World cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the Old World in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the New World? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today. |
| ancient history documentary series: A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver, 2011-09-15 Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival. There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago brought a new and warmer age and with it, one of the greatest tsunamis recorded on Earth which struck the north-east of Britain, devastating the population and flooding the low-lying plains of what is now the North Sea. The resulting island became, in time, home to a diverse range of cultures and peoples who have left behind them some of the most extraordinary and enigmatic monuments in the world. Through what is revealed by the artefacts of the past, Neil Oliver weaves the epic story - half a million years of human history up to the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD. It was a period which accounts for more than ninety-nine per cent of humankind's presence on these islands. It is the real story of Britain and of her people. |
| ancient history documentary series: A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Emma Southon, 2021-03-09 An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human. |
| ancient history documentary series: Ancient Libraries Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf, 2013-04-25 The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever. |
| ancient history documentary series: Early Innings Dean A. Sullivan, 1995-01-01 This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908). |
| ancient history documentary series: In Search of Ancient Ireland Carmel McCaffrey, Leo Eaton, 2003-06-11 This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much of what people today accept as ancient Irish history—Celtic invaders from Europe turning Ireland into a Celtic nation; St. Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland and converting its people to Christianity—is myth and legend with little basis in reality. The truth is more interesting. The Irish, as the authors show, are not even Celtic in an archaeological sense. And there were plenty of bishops in Ireland before a British missionary called Patrick arrived. But In Search of Ancient Ireland is not simply the story of events from long ago. Across Ireland today are festivals, places, and folk customs that provide a tangible link to events thousands of years past. The authors visit and describe many of these places and festivals, talking to a wide variety of historians, scholars, poets, and storytellers in the very settings where history happened. Thus the book is also a journey on the ground to uncover ten thousand years of Irish identity. In Search of Ancient Ireland is the official companion to the three-part PBS documentary series. With 14 black-and-white photos, 6 b&w illustrations, and 1 map. |
| ancient history documentary series: Pompeii Mary Beard, 2010-07-09 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Story of Egypt Joann Fletcher, 2016-08-02 The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that have shaped the world. It is full of spectacular cities and epic stories—an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, heroines, villains, artisans, and pioneers. Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete story of Egypt, charting the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptians while putting their whole world into a context to which we can all relate.Fletcher uncovers some fascinating revelations: new evidence shows that women became pharaohs on at least ten occasions; and that the ancient Egyptians built the first Suez Canal and then circumnavigated Africa. From Ramses II's penchant for dying his grey hair to how we know that Montuhotep's chief wife bit her nails, Fletcher brings alive the history and people of ancient Egypt as nobody else can. |
| ancient history documentary series: Ancient Naples Rabun M. Taylor, 2021 Drawing on historical, literary, and archaeological sources, this volume provides a cultural, economic, material, and political history of the city of Naples, Italy from its beginnings as a Greek settlement in the eighth century BCE to the reign of the emperor Constantine in the fourth century CE-- |
| ancient history documentary series: Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages Warren Brown, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Adam Kosto, 2013 This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Great War for Civilisation Robert Fisk, 2007-12-18 A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world. |
| ancient history documentary series: Worlds Long Lost Christopher Ruocchio, Sean CW Korsgaard, 2022-12-06 ALL-NEW STORIES OF ANCIENT ALIEN ARTIFACTS FROM TOP NAMES IN SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY The universe is older and more alien than we can ever understand. We were not alone. The farther we push into the universe, the more obvious it becomes. The signs are everywhere: canals and pyramids on Mars, old roads on the moons of Jupiter, ruined cities on worlds about the nearer stars. The galaxy once teemed with life, or so it seems. Which begs the question: What happened to it all? These stories explore the ruins of lost civilizations, solve ancient mysteries . . .and awaken horrors from beyond the dawn of time. Featuring stories by Orson Scott Card, Griffin Barber, Adam Oyebanji, Jessica Maguire, Patrick Chiles, and an all-new entry in the Sun Eater universe from editor Christopher Ruocchio. Join us for your next adventure to Worlds Long Lost! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Star Destroyers, coedited by Christopher Ruocchio: “. . . spectacular space battles and alien contacts . . . themes of military ethics, the uses of artificial intelligence, and the limits of the capacity of the human mind. . . . it is the human interactions and decisions that ultimately drive the stories. . . . will appeal to fans of military and hard science fiction and any readers fascinated by the possibilities of space travel.”—Booklist “. . . stories of giant spaceships at war, at peace, and in the often-gray areas between. . . . a worthy addition to a long tradition of ship-based fiction, and its authors portray captains, arcane astrogators, and civilian child passengers with equal depth. It’s recommended for fans of military SF and space adventure.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . you’d probably expect some tight, action-filled space opera stories of giant space battles . . . and there’s some of that. But there are also espionage stories, rescue missions, political conflicts, alternate histories, even a few humorous tales. . . . each author took the premise in a different direction . . . if I had to identify one common feature to all the stories, it would be that they’re all fun. . . . Like it says, big ships blowing things up. What’s not to like?”—Analog About Sword & Planet, edited by Christopher Ruocchio: ...the wide mix of stories, and the surprising places they go make this anthology a particular joy from start to finish... ofers a glimpse into everything that made stories like these a popular standby since the pulp era, with enough creativity, variety and talent showcased to prove that there's still plenty of life in the century-old genre... I recommend it heartily.—Analog Sword & Planet breathes new life into a genre that many understandably felt was left moldering in the grave. It’s old-school wonder with twenty-first century polish - what’s not to like? —Warped Factor |
| ancient history documentary series: A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Mark Tessler, 2009-03-24 Mark Tessler's highly praised, comprehensive, and balanced history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the earliest times to the present—updated through the first years of the 21st century—provides a constructive framework for understanding recent developments and assessing the prospects for future peace. Drawing upon a wide array of documents and on research by Palestinians, Israelis, and others, Tessler assesses the conflict on both the Israelis' and the Palestinians' terms. New chapters in this expanded edition elucidate the Oslo peace process, including the reasons for its failure, and the political dynamics in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza at a critical time of transition. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016-05-17 The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song of the Cell! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY). |
| ancient history documentary series: Caesar Adrian Goldsworthy, 2006-09-22 This “captivating biography” of the great Roman general “puts Caesar’s war exploits on full display, along with his literary genius” and more (The New York Times) Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the Julius Caesar’s life, Adrian Goldsworthy not only chronicles his accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult and captive of pirates, and rebel condemned by his own country. Goldsworthy also reveals much about Caesar’s intimate life, as husband and father, and as seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals. This landmark biography examines Caesar in all of these roles and places its subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C. Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate thousands of years later. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Middle East Bernard Lewis, 1995 A 2000-year history of a region stretching from Libya to Central Asia ; concludes with the effects of the Gulf War. |
| ancient history documentary series: Timeline of World History Matt Baker, John Andrews, 2020-10-20 Chart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines. Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Useful Charts website that puts the world's kingdoms, empires, and civilizations in context with one another. A giant wall chart shows the timelines and key events for each region of the world, and four additional foldout charts display the history of the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa and the Middle East. Packed with maps, diagrams, and images, this book captures the very essence of our shared history. |
| ancient history documentary series: Helen of Troy Bettany Hughes, 2006 As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as ane xquisite agent of extermination. But who was she? |
| ancient history documentary series: Ancient Greece Stylianos V. Spyridakis, Bradley P. Nystrom, 1997 Ancient Greek History, Preserved For Your Students. Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives, Second Edition by Stylianos V. Spyridakis and Bradley P. Nystrom, offers more than one hundred translations of important ancient Greek texts. This text is a balanced collection of material representing all aspects of Greek civilization, from the Classical Age through the Roman era, and is available to all students studying ancient Greece. The translations of these important texts are highly readable and will illuminate the history and culture of ancient Greece. This volume contains chapters on politics and society, philosophy, religion, the military, the role of women in Greek life, drama, poetry, and science. Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives is designed for use in college and university courses on ancient Greece, where students often have little exposure to primary materials representing Greek civilization. Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives presents literary testimony to the monumental achievements of classical Greece as well as glimpses of the private thoughts and lives of ordinary Greeks. |
| ancient history documentary series: About Time David Rooney, 2022-08-09 One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization. |
| ancient history documentary series: Millennium Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 1996 Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically. |
| ancient history documentary series: Searching for Augusta Martin King, 2017-09-01 A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth. Untold millions who saw and read Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45. In the television version of Band of Brothers, a passing reference is made to an African nurse assisting in an aid station in Bastogne. When military historian Martin King watched the episode, he had to know who that woman was; thus began a multi-year odyssey that revealed the horror of a town under siege as well as an improbable love story between a white Army medic, Jack Prior, and his black nurse, Augusta Chiwy, as they saved countless lives while under constant bombardment. Based on the recent discovery of Prior's diary as well as an exhaustive and occasionally futile search for Augusta herself, King was at last able to bring belated recognition of Augusta's incredible story by both the U.S. Army and Belgian government shortly before she died. This is not only a little-known story of the Battle of the Bulge, but also the author's own relentless mission to locate Augusta and bestow upon her the honors she so richly deserved. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Cambridge Ancient History John Boardman, 2012 |
| ancient history documentary series: Ancient Egypt Douglas J. Brewer, 2014-05-01 Ancient Egypt is a beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read book covering the formative era of the Egyptian civilization: the age before the pyramids. Douglas Brewer shows why an awareness of the earliest phase of Egyptian history is crucial to understanding of later Egyptian culture. Beginning with a quick review of the fields of Egyptology and archaeology, Ancient Egypt takes the reader on a compelling survey of Egypt's prehistoric past. The books tours the Nile Valley to explore its impact on all aspects of life, from day-to-day living to regional politics, and introduces the reader to the Nile Valley's earliest inhabitants and the very first Egyptians. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Greeks Paul Cartledge, 2002-10-10 This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks and their achievements in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Many of our modern concepts as we understand them were invented by the Greeks: for example, democracy, theatre, philosophy, and history. Yet despite being our cultural ancestors in many ways, their legacy remains rooted in myth and the mental and material contexts of many of their achievements are deeply alien to our own ways of thinking and acting. The Greeks aims to explore in depth how the dominant group (adult, male, citizen) attempted, with limited success, to define themselves unambiguously in polar opposition to a whole series of 'Others' - non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves and gods. This new edition contains an updated bibliography, a new chapter entitled 'Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others', and a new afterword. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Story of Music Howard Goodall, 2021-11-15 Why did prehistoric people start making music? What does every postwar pop song have in common? A “masterful” tour of music through the ages (Booklist, starred review). Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialized and complex. In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels, and tired terminology. Instead, he leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation—harmony, notation, sung theater, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting—strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionized man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, why some chords sound discordant, and what all post-war pop songs have in common. The story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel—and entertain. Howard Goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking map of our musical journey. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Dawn of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021-11-09 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations |
| ancient history documentary series: Aztec Philosophy James Maffie, 2014-03-15 In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas. |
| ancient history documentary series: Red Land, Black Land Barbara Mertz, 2011-01-25 A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt—this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt. Who were these people whose civilization has inspired myriad films, books, artwork, myths, and dreams, and who built astonishing monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later? What did average Egyptians eat, drink, wear, gossip about, and aspire to? What were their amusements, their beliefs, their attitudes concerning religion, childrearing, nudity, premarital sex? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate view of the everyday worlds of the royal and commoner alike. We observe priests and painters, scribes and pyramid builders, slaves, housewives, and queens—and receive fascinating tips on how to perform tasks essential to ancient Egyptian living, from mummification to making papyrus. An eye-opening and endlessly entertaining companion volume to Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, Mertz's extraordinary history of ancient Egypt, Red Land, Black Land offers readers a brilliant display of rich description and fascinating edification. It brings us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture that was so different from—yet so surprisingly similar to—our own. |
| ancient history documentary series: Documentary Sources on the History of Rus ́ Metropolitanate Andrei I. Pliguzov, Research Assistant to the Director Andrei I Pliguzov, 2021-07-13 Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus ́ Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupations of the Orthodox hierarchy and the clergy throughout the Rus ́ metropolitanate up to the early modern period. |
| ancient history documentary series: Britain B.C. Francis Pryor, 2003 Based on new archaeological finds, this book introduces a novel rethinking of the whole of British history before the coming of the Romans. So many extraordinary archaeological discoveries (many of them involving the author) have been made since the early 1970s that our whole understanding of British prehistory needs to be updated. So far only the specialists have twigged on to these developments; now, Francis Pryor broadcasts them to a much wider, general audience. Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Body In Question Jonathan Miller, 2017-12-04 In this remarkable book Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards the body, our astonishing ignorance about certain parts of it and our inability to read its signals. Taking as his starting point the experience of pain, Dr Miller explores the elaborate social process of 'falling ill', considers the physical foundations of 'dis-ease' and looks at the types of individuals man has historically attributed with the power of healing. His explanations are so lucid, so wide-ranging and so whole-heartedly entertaining it is often hard to believe one is reading about the facts of one's own body and what can go wrong with it. His use of metaphor and suggestive models, particularly when tracing the historical development of certain leading ideas in human physiology, is highly stimulating. Above all, there is the keen originality and sheer enthusiasm of Dr Miller's approach to his subject which makes The Body in Question such an outstanding book. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Face of Tutankhamun Christopher Frayling, 1992 In a five-part series for the BBC, the author of this book presents the case of King Tut to mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of his tomb. This book uses extracts from the diaries of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter who led the expeditionary team. The staggering wealth of their discovery, and the legend of the curse of the tomb unleashed a worldwide craze for all things Egyptian, and the style invaded our popular culture, influencing everything from the architecture of cinemas to what we saw on the big screen itself. |
| ancient history documentary series: The Sea Peoples Nancy K. Sandars, 1985 Draws upon archaeological findings to reveal the nature and origins of the seafaring peoples who nearly destroyed East Mediterranean civilization in the thirteenth century B.C |
| ancient history documentary series: Cold War , 1998-01-01 |
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Documentaries About Ancient History: Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks …
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity A Review Of …
New Testament and early church researchers teachers and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions …
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs - brepolsonline.net
SERIES FOREWORD The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre was established in 1981 at Macquarie University under the direction of Professor Edwin Judge. Over the years it …
Realism in Ancient History Documentaries Jie Yu
expressions in ancient history documentaries is meaningful. Therefore, by combining theory and practice, based on realism-related theories, this project explores the expressive techniques in …
Macquarie University: Ancient History Documentary Research
Macquarie University: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre (Distributed in the US by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company); 1998. vi + 198 pages. ISBN 0-8028-4518-5. ...
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ancient history documentary series: Testament John Romer, 1988 In telling the story of the Bible's birth and journey from ancient East to modern West, Romer explores legendary characters of …
JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT …
There can be few topics on which public opinion has changed more radically in the last hundred years than the idea of Empire. Olivia Manning neatly captures a precise moment of change in …
The archaeological aesthetic in ancient world documentary
By identifying and examining four primary modes – archaeology ‘as evidence’, ‘in performance’, ‘in action’ and ‘dramatized’ – it demonstrates how the on-screen presentation of ancient sites, …
SILK ROAD STUDIES IV ANCIENT AND MODERN
Ancient and Modern Proceedings from the Third Conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies (A.S.I.A.S.) Macquarie University September 18-20 1998 Edited by David …
Documentaries About Ancient History (PDF)
Documentaries About Ancient History: Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks …
FROM PALMYRA TO ZAYTON: EPIGRAPHY AND …
pioneering scholars of the history Inner Asia in Australia, we are all heavily indebted. However, major research on the Silk Road carried on unabated at the Manichaean Documentation …
Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE
Ancient History Department of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The documentary papyri are an unparalleled source for the study of women in antiquity providing information about their …
Texts of Greek and Latin Authors on the Far East: Front …
SERIES FOREWORD The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre. was established in 1981. at Macquarie University under the direction of Professor Edwin Judge. Over the years it …
write this open letter to express the Society for American …
series Ancient Apocalypse hosted by Graham Hancock, produced by ITN Productions, and aired on Netflix beginning on November 11. This series publicly disparages archaeologists and …
Is YouTube History an Effective tool for Teaching History to …
Is the quality of YouTube history channels sufficient to be an effective tool for teaching history to secondary schoolers? To do so it will also ask a number of secondary questions, namely: 1. …
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Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient …
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Learn all about the History of the Roman Empire for Kids 8 minutes, 4 seconds - Ancient Rome, for Kids is an engaging overview of the history of the roman, empire. In this video we will learn …
Nature: Museum Alive with David Attenborough Brings …
A landmark documentary fulfills the long-held dreams of David Attenborough by bringing the incredible pantheon of the London Natural History Museum’s long-extinct creatures to life. …
CONSTANTINE: History, historiography and legend
Constantine: history, historiography and legend/edited by Samuel N.C.Lieu and Dominic Montserrat. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Constantine I, Emperor of …
FOOD AND TRANSFORMATION IN ANCIENT …
Title: Food and transformation in ancient Mediterranean literature / by Meredith J. C. Warren. Description: Atlanta : SBL Press, 2019. | Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman world …
Documentaries About Ancient History (Download Only)
Documentaries About Ancient History: Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks new …
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity A Review Of The …
New Testament and early church researchers teachers and students abreast of emerging documentary evidence by reproducing and reviewing recently published Greek inscriptions and …
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs - brepolsonline.net
SERIES FOREWORD The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre was established in 1981 at Macquarie University under the direction of Professor Edwin Judge. Over the years it has …
Realism in Ancient History Documentaries Jie Yu
expressions in ancient history documentaries is meaningful. Therefore, by combining theory and practice, based on realism-related theories, this project explores the expressive techniques in …
Macquarie University: Ancient History Documentary Research
Macquarie University: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre (Distributed in the US by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company); 1998. vi + 198 pages. ISBN 0-8028-4518-5. ... series …
Ancient History Documentary Series - www2.x-plane.com
ancient history documentary series: Testament John Romer, 1988 In telling the story of the Bible's birth and journey from ancient East to modern West, Romer explores legendary characters of the …
JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT …
There can be few topics on which public opinion has changed more radically in the last hundred years than the idea of Empire. Olivia Manning neatly captures a precise moment of change in The …
The archaeological aesthetic in ancient world documentary
By identifying and examining four primary modes – archaeology ‘as evidence’, ‘in performance’, ‘in action’ and ‘dramatized’ – it demonstrates how the on-screen presentation of ancient sites, …
SILK ROAD STUDIES IV ANCIENT AND MODERN
Ancient and Modern Proceedings from the Third Conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies (A.S.I.A.S.) Macquarie University September 18-20 1998 Edited by David Christian …
Documentaries About Ancient History (PDF)
Documentaries About Ancient History: Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks new …
FROM PALMYRA TO ZAYTON: EPIGRAPHY AND …
pioneering scholars of the history Inner Asia in Australia, we are all heavily indebted. However, major research on the Silk Road carried on unabated at the Manichaean Documentation Centre (a …
Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE
Ancient History Department of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The documentary papyri are an unparalleled source for the study of women in antiquity providing information about their lives …
Texts of Greek and Latin Authors on the Far East: Front Matter ...
SERIES FOREWORD The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre. was established in 1981. at Macquarie University under the direction of Professor Edwin Judge. Over the years it has …
write this open letter to express the Society for American …
series Ancient Apocalypse hosted by Graham Hancock, produced by ITN Productions, and aired on Netflix beginning on November 11. This series publicly disparages archaeologists and devalues …
Is YouTube History an Effective tool for Teaching History to …
Is the quality of YouTube history channels sufficient to be an effective tool for teaching history to secondary schoolers? To do so it will also ask a number of secondary questions, namely: 1. What …
Documentaries About Ancient History Copy
Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History Heather D. Baker,Michael Jursa,2014-08-31 This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient …
PDF Rome And Romans (Time Travellers) - api.motion.ac.in
Learn all about the History of the Roman Empire for Kids 8 minutes, 4 seconds - Ancient Rome, for Kids is an engaging overview of the history of the roman, empire. In this video we will learn about …
Nature: Museum Alive with David Attenborough Brings Ancient …
A landmark documentary fulfills the long-held dreams of David Attenborough by bringing the incredible pantheon of the London Natural History Museum’s long-extinct creatures to life. Using …
CONSTANTINE: History, historiography and legend
Constantine: history, historiography and legend/edited by Samuel N.C.Lieu and Dominic Montserrat. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, d. 337. …
FOOD AND TRANSFORMATION IN ANCIENT …
Title: Food and transformation in ancient Mediterranean literature / by Meredith J. C. Warren. Description: Atlanta : SBL Press, 2019. | Series: Writings from the Greco-Roman world …
