Most Read This Week In Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
The Lion (The Golden Age #1)
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Carthage: A New History
Sparrow (Sparrow, #1)
Jewel of the Nile
The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido
Protector (Athenian #2)
The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
Xolo
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
Empire (The Golden Age #2)
Of Love and Treason
Before the King: Joanna's Story (Women of the Way, #2)
The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
The Daughter of Rome
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
As Sure as the Sea
Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
The Greeks: A Global History
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
Horses of Fire
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great – A Riveting Biography of Leadership, Ambition, and the Campaign That Forged History
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
Demetrius: Sacker of Cities
Between the Wild Branches (The Covenant House, #2)
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
New Rome: The Empire in the East
The Life of Herod the Great
Athens: City of Wisdom
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
Homer and His Iliad
The Wall (City of Victory #3)
The City (City of Victory #2)
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
The Fort (City of Victory #1)
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
Dionysos: The New God (Olympians, #12)
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
A Comedy of Terrors (Flavia Albia #9)
A Man at Arms
Rebel Daughter
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Crassus: The First Tycoon
Rome: Strategy of Empire
Dominus (Roma, #3)

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People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. ...more
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Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination
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