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  • John F. Haldon The best books on premodern societies, climate, and environment Book cover of The Holocene: An Environmental History Book cover of Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths Book cover of A Rural Economy in Transition: Asia Minor from Late Antiquity Into the Early Middle Ages Book cover of The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 Book cover of The History of the Countryside
  • Luke Eastwood The best books on mysteries of the ancient world Book cover of Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC-1000 BC Book cover of Akhenaten: King of Egypt Book cover of The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise Book cover of Chariots of the Gods Book cover of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths
  • Guy D. Middleton The best books on real women in the ancient Mediterranean Book cover of Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World Book cover of Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity Book cover of Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great Book cover of Hypatia of Alexandria Book cover of Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women ... The Romans That History Forgot
  • L.S. Berthelsen The best books about navigating ancient wisdom traditions, and the cosmos Book cover of Summer with the Leprechauns Book cover of Hilma af Klint Book cover of Scotland's Hidden Sacred Past Book cover of The Friar of Carcassonne: Revolt against the Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars Book cover of Apollo & Me
  • Jessica Dall The best historical fiction novels in lesser-known settings Book cover of Bird in a Snare Book cover of The Twentieth Wife Book cover of When You See Her Book cover of Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 Book cover of Baltasar and Blimunda
  • Eric Lerner The best books to demystify science Book cover of Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature Book cover of Cosmos Book cover of The Phenomenon of Man Book cover of What Happened in History? Book cover of Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
  • Nigel Rodgers The best books showing daily life in ancient Athens and Rome (at their respective peaks) Book cover of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian Book cover of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic Book cover of The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome Book cover of The Penguin Dictionary of Ancient History Book cover of Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matter
  • Jeffrey Peter Clarke The best books that capture the time of Gilgamesh Book cover of The Epic of Gilgamesh Book cover of History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History Book cover of Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City Book cover of Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia Book cover of The Epic of Man
  • David Austin Beck The best books to understand the Scythians Book cover of The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe Book cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present Book cover of The Histories (Translated by Robin Waterfield) Book cover of The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander Book cover of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
  • Josiah Osgood The best books about the grit and glamor of Ancient Rome Book cover of The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found Book cover of The Venus Throw Book cover of The Spartacus War Book cover of The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire Book cover of The Golden Ass
  • Henry Davis The best ancient history books that challenge assumptions Book cover of The Roman Revolution Book cover of Encyclopaedia Biblica Book cover of Marcus Aurelius: A Biography Book cover of Myth of Persecution Book cover of The Jewish War
  • Rosemary Mahoney The best books on floating down the Nile Book cover of Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour Book cover of Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850 Book cover of An Egyptian Journal Book cover of An Account Of The Manners And Customs Of The Modern Egyptians Book cover of The Histories (Translated by Tom Holland)
  • Julie Anderson The best books about Delphi and its oracle Book cover of Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World Book cover of Oresteia Book cover of The Bacchae and Other Plays Book cover of The Mask of Apollo Book cover of See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
  • René Harder Horst The best books to understand Indigenous peoples in Latin America Book cover of A Global History of Indigenous Peoples: Struggle and Survival Book cover of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Book cover of Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America Book cover of Disrupting the Patron: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco Book cover of Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco
  • Alejandro Jiménez Serrano The best books to understand Ancient Egypt (from a peripheral perspective) Book cover of The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom Book cover of Historical and Archaeological Aspects of Egyptian Funerary Culture: Religious Ideas and Ritual Practice in Middle Kingdom Elite Cemeteries Book cover of Tomb Treasures of the Late Middle Kingdom: The Archaeology of Female Burials Book cover of Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection Book cover of International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600-1100 BC
  • Steve P. Kershaw The best books about Ancient Greece by Ancient Greeks Book cover of The Iliad of Homer Book cover of The Histories (Translated by Tom Holland) Book cover of The Peloponnesian War Book cover of Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata Book cover of Guide to Greece: Volume 1
  • Jesse Browner The best historical novels of the ancient world Book cover of Eagle in the Snow Book cover of The Long Ships Book cover of The Love-Artist Book cover of Quarantine Book cover of Memoirs of Hadrian
  • Zita Eva Rohr The best books about premodern women of power and influence: unexceptional but plenty to see Book cover of Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna Book cover of The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power Book cover of Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England Book cover of The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry Book cover of Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Fernando Wulff Alonso The best books to understand Ancient India in a global world Book cover of Foreign Influence in Ancient India Book cover of Indian Architecture: According to Manasara-Silpasatra, Manasara Series: Vol. II Book cover of Motifs in Indian Mythology: Their Greek and Other Parallels Book cover of The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater Book cover of Feeders Of Indian Culture
  • Paul Cartledge The best books about ancient Greece and their world Book cover of The Iliad Book cover of The Histories (Translated by Tom Holland) Book cover of Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians Book cover of The Last of the Wine Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece
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