Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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Cleopatra's Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the fol...
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Roman Arabia / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, north...
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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000–500 B...
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Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cit...
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Hanukkah - The Real Story
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Hanukkah - the real story describes the Jew's guerrilla war for national liberation and religious freedom. The Maccabees set up a free society in...
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Early Israelites: Two Peoples, One History: Rediscovery of the Origins of Ancient Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /What does the Bible hide and to what extent can we trust the Holy Scriptures? The “archaeology” of biblical texts yielded many interesting and su...
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Sumerian Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A Mysterious Group of People came to settle in southern Mesopotamia, sometime around 5400BC. What is now the modern state of Iraq, the first city...
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The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting und...
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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier...
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The Descent of the Sumerian Civilization and the Rise of the Akkadian Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Sargon of Agade or Akkad is a name associated primarily with later Mesopotamian tradition, and modern writers view his reign as one of the most c...
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Ancient Egypt: A Concise Overview of the Egyptian History and Mythology Including the Egyptian Gods, Pyramids, Kings and Queens
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Explore the History and Mythology of the Egyptian Kingdom! There are many mysteries of the ancient Egyptian empire and dynasties. Archaeologists...
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The Search for God in Ancient Egypt / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologis...
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Cyrus The Great
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from ...
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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his thr...
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The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt: The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis I...
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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book abou...
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Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The force that forged an empire. The furious thunder of thousands of hooves, the clatter and sheen of bronze armor sparkling in the desert sun, ...
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The Secret History
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclai...
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /World-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzli...
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A captivating account of the legendary empire that made Western civilization possibleByzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunn...
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Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mo...
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Eg...
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary ...
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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C.
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his thro...
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