Antiquity Books

The Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius Pollio

On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the..

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2

Louis Ginzberg

The Legends of the Jews has been called a monumental work of scholarship. It is studied by serious students of both Judaism and Christianity. And yet the stories continue to be accessible and understo..

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)

G. Maspero

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, is a twelve volume work on the ancient history of important countries and this book is the First volume. Professor Maspero does not need ..

London and the Kingdom - Volume 1

Reginald R. Sharpe

London and the Kingdom - Volume 1, a history derived mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.Of the numerous works that have been written on Londo..

Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition

Leonard W. King

In these lectures an attempt is made, not so much to restate familiar facts, as to accommodate them to new and supplementary evidence which has been published in America since the outbreak of the war...

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona

Cosmos Mindeleff

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897...

An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades

Flavius Josephus

An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades is a non-fiction work on Jews antiquities written by Titus Flavius Josephus, a first-century Romano-Jewish historian...

Tacitus - The Histories, Volumes I and II

Cornelius Tacitus

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Do..