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  • Pearl of the Desert

    A History of Palmyra

    by Rubina Raja ...
    Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is now modern Turkey and Egypt. Even though Zenobia's empire was a fairly short interlude and the Romans struck back hard, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

    Edited by Rubina Raja ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods has been studied for centuries. This Handbook includes fifty chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology (including classical, near eastern, and Islamic), ancient history, anthropology, art history, data and network science, epigraphy, and historiography. Together, these chapters shed a fresh light on the vast ... Read more

    $182.69 USD

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    Pearl of the Desert

    A History of Palmyra

    by Rubina Raja ...
    Narrated by Christopher Hallett ...
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    5 hours 32 min

    Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is now modern Turkey and Egypt.Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive history of this fabled ancient city in English. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond

    Edited by Rubina Raja ...
    Series series Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
    Palmyra is one of the most famous sites of the ancient world and played a major role in the overland trade between the Mediterranean and the East. This volume explores fascinating aspects of Palmyrene archaeology and history that underline the site's dynamic relations with the Roman world, whilst simultaneously acknowledging its extremely local nature. The chapters explore Palmyra as a site, but ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies

    Edited by Elton Barker, Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies offers three distinct views: (1) an expansive approach to classical studies, which encompasses sub-disciplines that are usually treated separately, such as archaeology and philology; (2) concise overviews of the various digital tools, methods, and approaches currently in use; and (3) an exploration of their uses in and beyond academia, taking in ... Read more

    $199.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra

    Edited by Rubina Raja ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The monumental remains of Palmyra (also known as Tadmor) have fascinated travelers and scholars for centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra gives a detailed analysis of the archaeology and history of this ancient oasis city in the Syrian Desert, spanning evidence from several millennia. With contributions from thirty archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and philologists, this book covers ... Read more

    $149.39 USD

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  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

    Adaptation and Expansion

    Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, Elizabeth Pendleton ...
    Series Book 5 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate ... Read more

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  • Palmyra

    An Irreplaceable Treasure

    by Paul Veyne ...
    Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ...
    A "comprehensive, passionate" portrait of the magnificent ancient city destroyed by ISIS: "Veyne speaks of Palmyra as one might of a lost lover" ( The Spectator).Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

    Edited by Christina Riggs ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • A History of the Ptolemaic Empire

    by Günther Hölbl ...
    Translated by Tina Saavedra ...
    This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC. The skilful integration of material from a vast array of sources allows the reader to trace the political and religious development of one of the most ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Elam

    Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State

    by D. T. Potts ...
    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    Elam was an important state in southwestern Iran from the third millennium BC to the appearance of the Persian Empire and beyond. Less well-known than its neighbors in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant or Egypt, it was nonetheless a region of extraordinary cultural vitality. This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam's many identities through both archaeological and written ... Read more

    $48.39 USD