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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,214 ratings — published 2015
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,955 ratings — published -430
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,987 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,081 ratings — published -411
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,328 ratings — published 121
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,177 ratings — published 2014
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,385 ratings — published 2005
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,660 ratings — published -800
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,301 ratings — published 2010
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,165,474 ratings — published -700
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,468 ratings — published 2007
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,311 ratings — published 1776
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,917 ratings — published 2006
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,213 ratings — published 2017
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,100 ratings — published 2010
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,589 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,000 ratings — published 2010
The Punic Wars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,351 ratings — published 2000
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 142 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,673 ratings — published 2015
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,249 ratings — published 2003
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,295 ratings — published -50
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,287 ratings — published 2005
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,651 ratings — published -400
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,853 ratings — published 2011
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,184 ratings — published 2001
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,782 ratings — published -29
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,896,815 ratings — published 2011
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,196 ratings — published 2008
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,811 ratings — published -19
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,263 ratings — published 2006
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,156 ratings — published -1200
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,270 ratings — published 150
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,099 ratings — published 1934
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,824 ratings — published 2014
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,206 ratings — published 1973
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,385 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 327,438 ratings — published 180
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,822 ratings — published -170
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,287 ratings — published 2023
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,132 ratings — published 2009
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,590 ratings — published 2010
The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,749 ratings — published 2010
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,346 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,220 ratings — published 116
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,777 ratings — published 2020
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,088 ratings — published 2005
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,348 ratings — published 2003
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,823 ratings — published 2007
Pax Romana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,231 ratings — published 2016
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,454 ratings — published 2023
“The allure of antiquity...
The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients.
A visceral connection to history, a sense of mystery wrapped in the patina of time, evoking a profound appreciation for the stories embedded in each weathered relic.
I'm in love with the feel of this very feeling.
I belong here. Relics. Ruins.”
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The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients.
A visceral connection to history, a sense of mystery wrapped in the patina of time, evoking a profound appreciation for the stories embedded in each weathered relic.
I'm in love with the feel of this very feeling.
I belong here. Relics. Ruins.”
―
“I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different moai, which could be telltale signs of major discrepancies in their ages. The levels of sedimentation around certain moai also impressed me. Some moai have been buried in up to an estimated six meters of sediment, or more, such that even though they are standing erect, only their chins and heads are above the current ground level. Such high levels of sedimentation could occur quickly, for instance if there were catastrophic landslides, mudflows, or possibly tsunamis washing over the island, but I could not find any such evidence (and landslides or tsunamis would tend to shift and knock over the tall statues). Rather, to my eye, the sedimentation around certain moai suggests a much more extreme antiquity than most conventional archaeologists and historians believe to be the case--or believe to be possible.”
― Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
― Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
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