Best Books About Ancient History

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Vanished Civilizations: The Hidden Secrets of Lost Cities and Forgotten Peoples
Vanished Civilizations: The Hidden Secrets of Lost Cities and Forgotten Peoples 4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean
The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean 3.91 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Cleopatra Confesses
Cleopatra Confesses 3.62 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
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Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored
Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored 4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700
Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra 3.67 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad 3.72 avg rating — 83,735 ratings
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Lavinia
Lavinia 3.86 avg rating — 16,456 ratings
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English Derived From Hebrew
English Derived From Hebrew 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Roman Army: The Civil Wars 88–31 BC (Battle Orders, 34)
The Roman Army: The Civil Wars 88–31 BC (Battle Orders, 34) 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard 3.95 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble 3.64 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 6,985 ratings
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View of the Hebrews, or, The Tribes of Israel in America
View of the Hebrews, or, The Tribes of Israel in America 2.89 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)
The Passion of Cleopatra (Ramses the Damned #2)
by: Anne Rice
3.85 avg rating — 5,176 ratings
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Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering
Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering 4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Children of Ra: Artistic, Historical, and Genetic Evidence for Ancient White Egypt
The Children of Ra: Artistic, Historical, and Genetic Evidence for Ancient White Egypt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Phaistos Disk: An Account of Its Unresolved Mystery
The Phaistos Disk: An Account of Its Unresolved Mystery 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Stilicho: The Vandal Who Saved Rome
Stilicho: The Vandal Who Saved Rome 4.12 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Classical Cookbook: Revised Edition
The Classical Cookbook: Revised Edition 4.09 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6)
The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6) 4.33 avg rating — 6,481 ratings
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Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones
Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire
Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cleopatra's Sister
Cleopatra's Sister 3.53 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier 3.73 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 241 ratings
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In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 53)
Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (Volume 53) 3.99 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Late Roman Warlords (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Late Roman Warlords (Oxford Classical Monographs) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene) 3.99 avg rating — 3,554 ratings
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier 3.82 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Nefertiti: An Archaeological Biography
Nefertiti: An Archaeological Biography 3.52 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Exploits of Xenophon
The Exploits of Xenophon 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Nefertiti and Cleopatra: Queen-Monarchs of Ancient Egypt
Nefertiti and Cleopatra: Queen-Monarchs of Ancient Egypt 3.46 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome 3.68 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Women in Ancient Egypt
Women in Ancient Egypt 4.14 avg rating — 198 ratings
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations 3.78 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great 3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World'
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World' 3.82 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Pompeii
Pompeii 3.88 avg rating — 51,586 ratings
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The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Alexander the Great (Norton Library (Paperback))
Alexander the Great (Norton Library (Paperback)) 3.72 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt 4.13 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy 3.95 avg rating — 11,993 ratings
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The Lost Queen of Egypt
The Lost Queen of Egypt 4.48 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
by: Ian Shaw
3.44 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad 3.88 avg rating — 4,271 ratings
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Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction 3.66 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered 3.41 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (3 Volume Set)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (3 Volume Set) 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Cambridge History of Egypt 2 Volume Set
The Cambridge History of Egypt 2 Volume Set
by: M.W. Daly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Death of Attila
The Death of Attila 3.81 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt
The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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ANCIENT MYSTERIES
ANCIENT MYSTERIES 3.84 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Ammianus Marcellinus, soldier-historian of the late Roman Empire
Ammianus Marcellinus, soldier-historian of the late Roman Empire liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Parthia: The Forgotten Ancient "Superpower" and Its Role in Biblical History (The Lost Tribes of Israel, 3)
Parthia: The Forgotten Ancient "Superpower" and Its Role in Biblical History (The Lost Tribes of Israel, 3) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Goths
Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Goths 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Origins and Empire of Ancient Israel
The Origins and Empire of Ancient Israel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Adrianople AD 378: The Goths crush Rome's legions (Campaign, 84)
Adrianople AD 378: The Goths crush Rome's legions (Campaign, 84) 3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Lost Civilizations: The Secret Histories and Suppressed Technologies of the Ancients
Lost Civilizations: The Secret Histories and Suppressed Technologies of the Ancients 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Theodosius: The Empire at Bay
Theodosius: The Empire at Bay 3.95 avg rating — 62 ratings
365.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople
Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople 4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction
Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction 3.77 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain
The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) 4.32 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Teach Yourself Hieroglyphics
Teach Yourself Hieroglyphics 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Secrets of Ancient America: Archaeoastronomy and the Legacy of the Phoenicians, Celts, and Other Forgotten Explorers
Secrets of Ancient America: Archaeoastronomy and the Legacy of the Phoenicians, Celts, and Other Forgotten Explorers 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians 3.73 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt 4.04 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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The Dream Culture of the Neanderthals: Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom
The Dream Culture of the Neanderthals: Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings
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A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641
A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings
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An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets (Vol 1)
An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets (Vol 1) 4.22 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations
Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith (Campaign, 296)
Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith (Campaign, 296) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners 4.32 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Lost Worlds of Ancient America: Compelling Evidence of Ancient Immigrants, Lost Technologies, and Places of Power
The Lost Worlds of Ancient America: Compelling Evidence of Ancient Immigrants, Lost Technologies, and Places of Power 3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Catalaunian Fields AD 451: Rome’s last great battle (Campaign, 286)
Catalaunian Fields AD 451: Rome’s last great battle (Campaign, 286) 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings
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How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself, Revised Edition 4.22 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of South America (Lost Cities Series)
Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of South America (Lost Cities Series) 3.90 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Historians of Late Antiquity
The Historians of Late Antiquity 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Underground! The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History
Underground! The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History 3.85 avg rating — 157 ratings
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House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari
House of Eternity: The Tomb of Nefertari 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Lost History of Ancient America
The Lost History of Ancient America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
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His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut
His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut 3.78 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A Comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America
The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A Comprehensive Guide to the Pre-Columbian Visitors Who Really Discovered America 3.89 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The War at Troy
The War at Troy 3.83 avg rating — 762 ratings
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American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence That an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations, ... Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By
American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence That an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations, ... Many Centuries Before Its Discovery By really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD 3.66 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Helen / Phoenician Women / Orestes
Helen / Phoenician Women / Orestes
by: Euripides
4.18 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Ancient Archives Among the Cornstalks: Twenty-seven century old documents on stone revealing a commercial enterprise of Mediterranean colonists in the Wabash Valley of mid-America
Ancient Archives Among the Cornstalks: Twenty-seven century old documents on stone revealing a commercial enterprise of Mediterranean colonists in the Wabash Valley of mid-America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Andromache / Hecuba
Children of Heracles / Hippolytus / Andromache / Hecuba
by: Euripides
4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome
Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome 4.31 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Suppliant Women / Electra / Heracles
Suppliant Women / Electra / Heracles
by: Euripides
4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-lost Civilization
The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-lost Civilization 3.81 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Cyclops / Alcestis / Medea
Cyclops / Alcestis / Medea
by: Euripides
4.24 avg rating — 91 ratings
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