Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers Archimedes

By J.M. Steele, John M. Steele

Herod

By Peter Richardson

Byzantine Christianity

By Derek Krueger

Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World

By De Ste. Croix G. E. M.

Pharaoh s Workers

By Leonard H. Lesko

Livy

By Gary B. Miles

The Making of a Christian Empire

By Elizabeth Depalma Digeser

"The work of the Christian scholar Lactantius provides an ideal lens through which to study how Rome became a Christian empire. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser shows how Lactantius's Divine Institutes -...

Sacred Luxuries

By Lise Manniche

"The art of modern fragrance making owes much to practices developed in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians attached great importance to perfumes and cosmetics, which men and women wore to make themselves...

Cleopatra

By Michel Chauveau

""Cleopatra": kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a pic...

Sphinx

By Christiane Zivie Coche

"The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known s...