History, Ancient

This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. Readers meet many important figures, including the Roman general Flavius Dionysius as he encounters a delegation from Persia after the Sassanids annex Armenia.

Historian and BBC broadcaster Michael Scott presents a richly coloured new vision of ancient history for our globalised world, showing us that to truly understand great events in our past we must explore their global contexts, connecting the West to the East and indeed to all corners of the earth.

Focusing mainly on the social, political and cultural processes which have influenced later Western civilisations, this book considers subjects such as the religions of the ancient Near East, Athenian democracy, gender problems and demography.

'The Lost Testament' follows the sequence of events from the rise of Neolithic civilisation, a region part of Iran which inspired the story of the Garden of Eden, through Noah, Abraham and the sojourn in Egypt.

Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and king...

A brief and original prehistory of the world. Prehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to a field of study, the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. This book begins by looking at the gradual discovery only 150...