History, ancient
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The Times ancient civilizations
The Kingfisher book of the ancient world
The face of the ancient Orient
Problems in ancient history
Timewalkers
The vanished library
Medicine and health care in early Christianity
The great transformation
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
The ancient Greek economy
Ancient Egypt
Medusa's stony stare
The Young Oxford book of the prehistoric world
The temple of Mut in Asher
Historiae Philippicae
March onto land
Memory in Jewish, pagan, and Christian societies of the Graeco-Roman world
Lies and fiction in the ancient world
Western medical thought from antiquity to the Middle Ages
Women in Ancient America
Ancient Rome
A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284-641
Centuries of Darkness
Origins of intelligence services
The Cambridge ancient history
The Myth of the Magus
The Romans, from village to empire
The limits of ancient biography
The histories
The human venture
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