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Shire Books, 2008. New book, 72 pages. The vast networks of roads throughout the Roman Empire were vital to the expansion of Roman culture, power and influence across the world and one of their principal uses was the transportation of the Legions to strategic bases in the most direct way possible. This book details the planning, construction and maintenance of… Read more about this item

Shire Books, 2002. New book, 64 pages. Almost every Roman site in Britain seems to have had its baths. They needed to be strongly built and to a large extent were constructed below contemporary ground level. As a result the remains of Roman baths have resisted demolition and damage by the plough. We can easily imagine how, and in what… Read more about this item

Shire Books, 2008. New book, 64 pages. Stonehenge is just one of almost a hundred vast circular earthworks built in the British Isles over four thousand years ago. Known as henges, they remain one of the mysteries of prehistoric Britain. Unlike stone circles, which are their counterparts in the west, henges have generally been ignored. With their overgrown banks and… Read more about this item

Shire Books, 2005. New book, 64 pages. This book explains the history and the facts known about them, and shows how we are gradually coming to an understanding of the significance these gaunt, grey circles had to their builders. . Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Shire Books, 2009. New book, 64 pages. Accessible to archaeological experts and students alike, PJ Casey’s Roman Coinage in Britain is a fascinating investigation of the Roman Empire’s economic presence in Britain. Drawing from a wealth of archaeological sources, this book places Roman coinage in its rightful economic and political context to better understand the chronology and lives of those… Read more about this item

Shire Books, 2005. New book, 80 pages. This book looks at Celtic art made by communities who lived in Britain and Ireland a thousand years and more before the creation of the Book of Kells or the Ardagh Chalice, the art which is more popularly known as 'Celtic'. . Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Megaw, Vincent. 8vo -… Read more about this item

Shire Books, 2008. New book, 64 pages. The artists of Ancient Egypt reached a level of sophistication and technical mastery unsurpassed by other early peoples. They perfected a style which was less naturalistic than that later employed by the Greeks and Romans but which is particularly fascinating to the modern eye because of its combination of realistic and symbolic elements.… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 2008. New book, 398 pages. In 44 BC, Julius Caesar was murdered on the Ides of March. His mistress, Cleopatra of Egypt, fled back to Alexandria with their little son. Mark Antony, Caesar's friend and henchman who, according to some accounts, was already besotted with the beautiful Cleopatra, took up her son's case before the Senate. But they refused… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2008. New book, 96 pages, BTO34. The Roman Legions were the most highly organized troops of the ancient world, but the process of turning the Legions from what was essentially a part-time citizen militia into the professional force that first made Rome the dominant power in the Mediterranean and then built an empire that stretched across the… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2002. New book, 308 pages. On the evidence of their brilliantly evocative wall paintings, terracottas, bronzes and jewellery, the Etruscans appear to have had a tremendous zest for life with a fondness for dancing, horse-racing, every form of musical activity and sooth saying. The most remarkable inhabitants of early Italy, their kings held sway in Rome… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. New book, 351 pages. Portrayed as everything from the repentant harlot to victim of a male dominated church, from feminist icon to co-creator of the Christian revolution, her life has been shrouded in controversy. This book pulls together a team of experts from many fields to explode the myths and tease the truth from the… Read more about this item

Harper Collins, 2006. New book, 192 pages. The discovery of the previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community. What Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us about Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is inconsistent and biased. Therefore, the revelation of an ancient gospel that portrays this despised man as someone who saw his role in… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2000. New book, 273 pages. The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the most fascinating of all Latin histories. As a one time personal secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the Imperial and Senatorial archives; he also… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2001. New book, 240 pages. King of Macedonia before he was twenty, Alexander went on to become the greatest conqueror of the ancient world, inspiring legends in his his lifetime and after his death. Every age has interpreted him to suit their own values; either as a ruthless destroyer who eliminated all who… Read more about this item

London: Pheonix Press, 2005. New book, 338 pages. 109 B&W photos, 58 illustrations, 4 maps. Suffused with a warm, though not uncritical, appreciation of all things Egyptians, this is a brilliant account of the civilisation of ancient Egypt from earliest times to the conquest by Alexander the Great. Professor Montet discusses the natural and political conditions of Egyptian life. He… Read more about this item

London: Pheonix Press, 2005. New book, 318 pages. This book brings alive a civilisation in which emperors are magnified, bureaucrats satirised, women worshipped, nature adored, parting and death mourned, and war reviled. The roles of emperors at the top and of district magistrates at the bottom of the bureaucratic structure are used to explain the political process. In addition the… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Virgin Books, 2005. New book, 277 pages. Alexander the Great created the largest empire the world had ever known. On June 323 BC, in the anceint city of Babylon, at the very height of his power, he died suddenly of a mysterious illness at the age of 33. For centuries scholars have debated what really killed history's… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: BBC Books, 2005. New book, 256 pages. For nearly two thousand year after the last pharaoh ruled Egypt the wonders of this ancient culture remained hidden, seemingly lost and forgotten for ever. Then, in the late eighteenth century, Napoleon's invasion of the country sparked an explosion of interest in ancient Egypt that has burned strongly ever since.… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2003. New book, 235 pages. More than 3000 years ago a village was established on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren and arid landscape, it housed the workers who created the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. Stonemasons, painters sculptors, quarrymen and scribes lived with their wives and… Read more about this item

London: Pheonix Press, 2005. New book, 318 pages. This book brings alive a civilisation in which emperors are magnified, bureaucrats satirised, women worshipped, nature adored, parting and death mourned, and war reviled. The roles of emperors at the top and of district magistrates at the bottom of the bureaucratic structure are used to explain the political process. In addition the… Read more about this item