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THE GREATEST CONFLICT IN OUR SHARED HISTORY. 'A brilliant retelling of the epic legend from an historical novelist at the top of his game!' SIMON SCARROW, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author 'I missed my stop reading chapter three. This feels effortless, weightless. Wonderful' CONN IGGULDEN, #1...

From the author of Bad Girls of Ancient Greece comes a new collection, covering tales of lore from bad boys and more… Myths and legends would be nothing without their shining star of a hero at the forefront, right? But what about those sidekicks and minor characters so often scrubbed out of...

The Gallic Paradox: Achievement and AtrocityThe sentence that launched a thousand classrooms also launched a genocide. For two millennia, students have parsed Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres as a masterpiece of prose. They were rarely told it was a declaration of ownership—the opening move of a campaign that killed one million people and erased sixty tribal nations. The Gallic Paradox by Robert Walker reconstructs the world Caesar destroyed alongside the machine he built to do it.

Twenty years ago, paleoanthropologists confidently asserted that there were just two species at the origin of modern humans: Homo sapiens, our direct ancestors, and the Neanderthals. Both had evolved from the earlier Homo erectus. When Homo sapiens began to migrate out of Africa on a large scale around 70,000 years ago, they met Neanderthals in Europe and western Asia, and the two species lived peacefully together and even interbred. Over time, the Neanderthals died out, though we still don't know precisely why, and that left Homo sapiens as the single surviving human species on the planet.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the story of Moses was not a miracle—but a memory of war, exile, and survival? In Hyksos: Storm in the Delta, José Gómez-Rivera delivers a bold and electrifying reimagining of one of history’s most enduring figures. Set against the violent...

AN NPR SUMMER READING PICK “A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.” —Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis From clay tablets to the...

H. A. Guerber, the legendary historian, once again brings us this classic audiobook about one of the most fascinating civilizations in the history of our wonderful world: the Greeks. He brings to life Greek history in a way few have ever managed to do. His passion was to get people excited about the rise of Athens and Sparta, and the legends of Hercules, Theseus, and the Trojan war. Plus, who wouldn’t be inspired by the courage of Leonidas at Thermopylae, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the wisdom of the Great Socrates.

"NOW THERE ARE FIELDS WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD" —OVID During the great migrations of the second millennium BC, peoples from Western Europe-known as Achaeans or Sea Peoples-arrived in the Mediterranean region, either to settle there peacefully or to plunder and raze the land. They brought about...

Bloomsbury presents… Rome: Eternal City Standard pronunciation Written and read by Ferdinand Addis The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A Times History Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey... Superb' The Times. 'Grand narrative...

An epic, visceral history of the Romans in Britain, from Caesar's first invasion attempt in 55 BC to the fall of the Roman empire. Britain wasn’t conquered in a day. Caesar invaded twice, but didn't try to complete a conquest of the island. It was only when Claudius and his legions arrived in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. We are not what we have been told. For millennia, the ultimate prison wasn't made of iron bars—it was locked into our very DNA. In Architecture of Blindness, researcher and author Rev. Clifford L. Falen Jr. deconstructs the absolute deception of the...

KNOW BALDR. KNOW TYR. KNOW THE NORNS. NO HOLLYWOOD. In this third and final volume of The Norse Mythology Simplified Series, you’re invited back for a 7-day journey into a world of gods, giants, and cosmic upheaval. As Odin, Thor, Tyr, Heimdall, and Loki move toward the end of everything, to Ragnarök, you’ll step into a story of fate, transformation, and renewal. This is more than a tale of destruction—it’s a journey through courage, change, and the rise and fall of ages. With every page, you uncover how even the darkest ending can reveal a new beginning.

The ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of the Greek Miracle. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning. Reviel Netz boldly argues that the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Volume III: The Revelation Protocol The "Architecture of Blindness" is failing. As the "Too Large" (Earth's original Protectors) raise a Global Howl and the Amber Spheres return to our skies, this book provides the final "Kill-Switch" for the...

Step into the golden age of kings, conquerors, and colossal ambition. From humble beginnings in the rugged heartlands of Persia, a visionary named Cyrus the Great rose to forge one of the most expansive empires the world had ever seen. Through conquest and compassion, diplomacy and divine rule, the Persian Empire would span three continents, influencing civilizations from the Nile to the Indus and beyond.

211 BC: Hannibal's struggle against the Romans in Italy continues, but the Carthaginians have been utterly defeated on Sicily. Fleeing the island to Spain, Hanno and Aurelia are shipwrecked, and taken prisoner by local tribesmen. Unless they escape, a life of slavery and brutal treatment awaits...

'A groundbreaking reclamation of the forgotten women who slay dragons. A must-read for dragon fans.' Professor Daniel Ogden A seminal chronicle of the hidden history and mythology of female dragon slayers from ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer. The...

The Odyssey Decoded: An 80-Minute Journey into Homer’s Epic. Millions of moviegoers are discovering the adventures of Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus. After the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland, Ithaca. But storms drive him toward unknown seas. Pursued by...

When Susan Lorraine Kadera clicked on the “Historical Matches” tab in her DNA results, she expected nothing more than data. Instead, she found ancient lives staring back at her — Vikings, Celts, Iberian women, Baltic warriors, English victims of the St. Brice’s Day massacre, and even children from the Faroe Islands. Each one carried a fragment of her story, preserved in bone and blood across thousands of years. Echoes in My Blood is a memoir of ancestry, identity, and the astonishing ways ancient DNA can illuminate the past.

From acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and historian Emma Southon, a groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped by its enslaved people. When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul he boasted that he killed a million...