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The Persians: Lost Civilizations by Geoffrey Parker
Category: History | Series: Lost civilizations
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they wo ...Show more
The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations by Vadim S. Jigoulov
Category: History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage and the scope of their maritime and colonising activities in the Mediterranean.Vadim S. Jigoulov describes and analyses various artefacts (epigraphic, numismatic and material remains) and cons ...Show more
The Sumerians - Lost Civilizations by Paul Collins
Category: Ancient History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urb ...Show more
The Three Kingdoms of Korea - Lost Civilizations by Richard D. McBride II
Category: Asian History | Series: Lost Civilizations Ser.
An expansive and accessible introduction to the history of Korea during the first millennium CE. Korea's Three Kingdoms period is a genuine "lost civilization," during which ancient realms vied for supremacy during the first millennium CE. Nobles from this period's feuding states adopted and adapted B ...Show more