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He ruled for sixty-seven years. Built temples that dwarfed time. Fought the greatest chariot battle in history. Buried sons. Married goddesses. Made peace with empires. Rewrote the past. Refused to die. And three thousand years later, we’re still saying his name. RAMSES: The Pharaoh Who Wouldn’t Die is the story of Egypt’s loudest legend. The builder-king who turned himself into a monument, refused to step down, and became a god before his heart even stopped beating.

Byzantine Empire traces the dramatic transformation of the Roman Empire’s eastern half into a distinct Byzantine civilization, charting its arc from the founding of Constantinople in 330 to the empire’s high-water mark under the Macedonian dynasty around 1025.

Step beyond the ruins and into the pulse of ancient Rome—not the Rome of marble triumphs and imperial decrees, but of whispered spells, ghostly omens, and mythic memory. The Folklore of Rome: Myth, Magic, Dying, and the Making of the Empire is an immersive exploration of how stories, superstitions, and sacred rites shaped the world’s most enduring civilization from its legendary beginnings to its imperial zenith.

In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.

The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism—“a rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra) In...

Experience the sights, sounds and smells of the Roman world, and meet its most intriguing and influential characters, as this immersive account brings 1000 years of history to life. Combining impeccable research with riveting and action-packed storytelling, we follow the inception, expansion and...

Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues? Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!" Even in the Late Roman Empire Christian readers, like Augustine and Boethius, did just this. But...

It is time Christians rediscovered the benefits of reading the great works of Greco-Roman classical literature as Christians. Can Christians today read the Greco-Roman pagan classics for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues? Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal...

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor. Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves.

La Otra Pax Romana continúa el viaje de la República de la Concordia mientras navega por los dolores del crecimiento que conlleva la supervivencia y el renacimiento. Ya no satisfecha con solo mantener el centro, la república se expande hacia el exterior: hacia las tierras salvajes de la Galia, las profundidades intelectuales de Oriente y los cambiantes vientos del comercio de África y Asia.

Travel through the entire human journey—brought to life through engaging narration that makes the past feel close enough to touch. From Mesopotamia’s first cities to the digital age, listen to the rise and fall of empires, the sparks of revolutions, and the moments that shaped our world. This isn’t a dry audiobook—it’s history made alive, with clear timelines, captivating descriptions, and concise storytelling that makes every era easy to follow and remember. Whether you’re a student, history lover, or curious listener, you’ll be drawn into each chapter.

La Roma imperial fue un estado guerrero. El Coliseo (inaugurado en el año 80 d.C.) fue el monumento de Roma a la guerra. Como una catedral de la muerte, se alzaba sobre la ciudad e invitaba a sus ciudadanos, 50 000 a la vez, a presenciar juegos gladiatorios asesinos.

The world has utterly transformed over the course of the last 2,000 years. Many of the norms, rules, and expectations of the ancient world can feel strange to our 21st century sensibilities. But certain things remain constant, and one of those is the complexity of human relationships—especially romantic and sexual relationships.

La enciclopedia definitiva del antiguo Egipto: un formidable repaso a 3.000 años de historia. Conoce las intrigas políticas, las costumbres y los logros culturales de una de las más importantes civilizaciones de la historia universal. Este fabuloso audiolibro abarca 3.000 años y 31 dinastías, desde la época de Narmer hasta la de Cleopatra, pasando por Tutankamón y Nefertiti, con contenidos creados por expertos egiptólogos y basados en los últimos descubrimientos científicos.

This is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology.

11 septembre 2001. En regardant à la télévision les images des deux avions percutant les tours du World Trade Center, Robert Laffont s’écrie : «Des dinosaures!» Surpris par cette association d’idées qu’il juge incongrue, il cherche à en comprendre le sens. Ses investigations l’entraînent sur les traces des dinosaures du jurassique et le conduisent jusqu’au cerveau humain. Il découvre l’étrange parallèle qui, à soixante-cinq millions d’années de distance, s’établit entre les «terribles lézards» et ce que l’homme a créé.

Travel across thousands of years and countless cultures with this lively, informative, and entertaining exploration of ancient civilizations. Covering the period from 3500 BC to 1500 AD, this audiobook blends history, storytelling, and humour into a single guide that’s as enjoyable as it is enlightening. Whether you’re a lifelong history fan or simply curious about how ancient civilizations shaped the world, you’ll find plenty to learn, laugh at, and share.

It was Constantine the Great who first decided that Rome, exposed and vulnerable near the gathering masses of barbarians moving into Germania and Gaul in the early 4th century, was a strategically unsafe base for the empire, and thus expanded the city of New Rome on the Dardanelles straits, creating what eventually became Constantinople.

For nearly a thousand years, the samurai stood at the heart of Japan’s history—warriors of the sword, guardians of tradition, and ultimately casualties of modern change. Their story is one of loyalty and betrayal, war and peace, honour and decline. To understand the samurai is to understand Japan itself, for no other class shaped the nation’s destiny so profoundly. The Rise and Fall of the Samurai traces this extraordinary journey through ten defining moments.

The legend of Atlantis is one of the most captivating and enduring stories ever told. For over two thousand years, it has stirred the imagination of philosophers, explorers, mystics, and dreamers. A city swallowed by the sea in a single day and night, a mighty civilisation punished for its hubris, a radiant island where power and beauty thrived before vanishing without a trace — Atlantis is both a cautionary tale and a timeless riddle. But what do we really know about it?