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Hi all, I thought this Kindle ebook on Ragnar Lothbrok might be interesting to members of the community, it's free to download until April 8th.

If you enjoy it, an honest review on Amazon would be appreciated. But if you have any criticism, I would prefer you let me know via PM or leave a message here instead of leaving a negative review, so I can get it corrected right away for future readers.

Thanks!

The link above is for the US Amazon site, for your country's regional equivalent, you can change the URL suffix such as:

Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XXWMXRR

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XXWMXRR

Oh, goodness, sorry, no. I went from a high school library and TV to a college library with access to books upon books.

WAIT I just googled my favorite book for this(which is likely more academic than you want) and it's so much cheaper than it was when I last looked. Last I saw, it was like $500, but the Amazon listing has it at $40 used. Not quite an introduction, I suppose, but it covers just so much.

If you aren't used to reading academic essays, it might be tough, but it has essays about just about everything under the sun. Art, economics, geography, general historical information, etc. Just pick something you're interested in and start reading. I used this book for my history seminar thesis paper(which was about Ancient Egyptian architecture and how it related to propaganda, lots of fun! Unfortunately, I can't find my paper or bibliography to give you other options).

Also, thanks for asking this question because I know what I'm asking for for Christmas, now. And sorry for rambling, been a while since I got to talk about Egypt.

On Rome and the Jews: I've attended several lectures by Steve Mason in which he argues that, while in Jewish tradition their religion has often been offered as the reason for the wars with Rome, the Romans probably did not care all that much about that. The Romans were pretty religiously tolerant, allowing the veneration of diverse gods by the various peoples in their empire - they understood this was necessary to retain peace in the vast territory. Mason argues that Jews 'were understood until late antiquity as an ethnic group comparable to other ethnic groups, with their distinctive laws, traditions, cus-toms, and God.' The wars of the Flavian emperors against the Jews were then rather politically than religiously, ethnically or culturally inspired, which problematizes considering the as 'the start' or part of anti-semitism. (See among other publications Steve Mason 2007. " Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism:Problems of Categorization in Ancient History ", Journal for the Study of Judaism 38 457-512 - quoted from the abstract)

I'm offering this as a different perspective, 'cause I think that seeing the Roman conquest of Jerusalem for instance as a religious conflict from the outset probably stems from a very anachronous idea of what religion is.

Edit: added a link to the article on Academia

Edit2: asking this on r/AskHistorians might get you even more in-depth and qualitative answers?

Braun’s book is good from a musicology perspective. Richard Dumbrill is also interesting. He has several works on the subject. I linked one.

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Ancient-Israel-Palestine-Archaeological/dp/0802845584

https://www.amazon.com/Archaeomusicology-Ancient-Near-East/dp/1412055385

Not in this jar. If you are interested, there is a wonderful book and it gives detailed "recipes" of ancient Egyptian medicine.

https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Ancient-Egyptians-Gynecology-Obstetrics/dp/9774169964/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=ancient+egyptian+medicine&qid=1622333864&sr=8-3

There is another addition to this book, dedicated to Internal Medicine and it cost a bloody fortune! It is to be released soon.

Hi all, I thought this Kindle ebook on Egyptian Mythology might be interesting to members of the community, it's free to download until March 30th. It might be a bit basic for some of the more experienced people here but should make a good introduction to Egyptian mythology for newer readers.

If you enjoy it, an honest review on Amazon would be appreciated. But if you have any criticism, I would prefer you let me know via PM or leave a message here instead of leaving a negative review, so I can get it corrected right away for future readers.

Thanks!

The link above is for the US Amazon site, for your country's regional equivalent, you can change the URL suffix such as:

Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XSBT13X

UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XSBT13X

How old is this friend? I still have my first Egyptology book, which has a lot of cool stuff in it, Egyptology, the search for the tomb of Osiris but this is a book I first read when I was about 7-9. So they probably already know it. Other than that, I must admit that I don’t own a lot of stuff, mostly things I picked up in museum shops or that were gifted to me. Perhaps you could also give them a gift of a subscribption to a channel, or magazine. I really like History Hit, though i don’t have the subscription to their premium thingy, and also use it for more modern time periods a lot. But they have a lot of Podcasts and Documentaries together with Absolute History here:History Hits Subscription, and I am sure that if you look around you can also find some good discount codes (Absolute History offered 50% with the code “AbsoluteHistory” at some point, there must be more like that.). Once again, since I don’t actually pay for this, I don’t know how much more you get with the subscription versus just watching it with lots of ads on YouTube and listening to it on Spotify or wherever they listen to podcasts. I hope this helps!

Hi there, its more historical than technical but I very much recoment the below book, very well researched and frankly amazing to read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Under-Heaven-Complete-History/dp/0470865334

Found! https://www.amazon.ca/Letters-Younger-Pliny/dp/0140441271/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517681712&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=pliny+the+younger+Betty+Raddice. Awesome. I will check this out!

I like Charles Freeman. He's the author of several books, including Egypt, Greece and Rome, which is a general over-view of all three. The lengthiest sections are Greece and Rome, subjects he knows well. This was written as a semi-textbook. https://smile.amazon.com/Egypt-Greece-Rome-Civilizations-Mediterranean/dp/0199651922/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1472868757&sr=8-2&keywords=charles+freeman