Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire - and most critically, who was the first to brave the...
History, Ancient
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Author:Cassidy, CodySummary: -
Author:Durant, WillSummary:The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, this volume chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. Readers will learn about places like Sumeria, Babylonia, Persia, India, and more.
- Author:Seignobos, CharlesSummary:
Prehistoric Remains.-One often finds buried in the earth, weapons, implements, human skeletons, débris of every kind left by men of whom we have no direct knowledge. These are dug up by the thousand in all the provinces of France, in...
- Author:HerodotusSummary:
Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storytellers. In tales such as that of Gyges—who murders Candaules, the king of Lydia, and unsurps...
- Author:Beard, MarySummary:
A *National Book Critics Circle Award* finalist, this is "the perfect introduction to classical studies, and deserves to become something of a standard work" (*Observer*). Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and...
