Gladiators: Deadly Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
It’s hard for modern readers to truly grasp the spectacle that was arena sports in ancient Rome, which pitted man against man and man against beast in mortal combat. Our modern games of football and hockey, or even boxing and MMA, truly pale in comparison. Gladiators by Dr. Christopher Epplett is a comprehensive survey of these ancient sports, focusing on gladiatorial combat and the beast hunts (venationes). While many books have been written on arena spectacles in ancient Rome, they generally neglect the venationes, despite the fact that the beast hunts of various dangerous wild animals (including lions, tigers, elephants, bears and rhinos) were almost as popular as gladiatorial spectacles and endured over a longer period of time. Epplett gives a full and detailed treatment of both types of spectacles.
The Wanderings of Peoples
By A. C. Haddon. First published in 1911, this was the world’s first—and to date, still the only—book ever published which mapped out the great racial migrations across the Earth which led to the racial composition of present-day nations. Written by one of Britain’s foremost anthropologists—who also founded Cambridge University’s Anthropology Department—The Wanderings of Peoples describes in succinct detail how the continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America came to be inhabited with their “native” populations.
Rise of the Aryans: How Ancient Whites Influenced and Established Global Civilization
All across the world are mysterious and ancient stone structures demonstrating not only advanced building techniques but also an incredibly sophisticated knowledge of archeoastronomy. From isolated Easter Island in the Pacific, to the mountain peaks of the Andes, from the British Isles and the Mediterranean to the steppes of Eurasia, from the arid deserts of western China to the Mississippi Valley of North America, some advanced culture was erecting megalithic structures that baffle scientists and archeologists even today.
The Tradition of the Mother: The Aryan & Non-Aryan in the Near East & Europe 3000 B.C.—1000 A.D
In this amazing compilation of in-depth essays, author William White examines the roles and effects of the Aryan and non-Aryan upon the cultures of the Near East and Europe.
White calls upon his vast knowledge of ancient cultures to rewrite the history of this tumultuous era and present us with a finely-woven tapestry, uncolored by political correctness.
Beginning with an explanation of how our myths and history have been so intertwined as to leave us asking where the line can be drawn, he moves onto examinations of the religious and cultural interplay between various disparate peoples.
The Aryan Race: Its Origins and Its Achievements
A beautifully written cultural history of the Indo-European peoples, first published in 1888. Author Charles Morris, a classical scholar, defines “Aryan” as a “linguistic race” spanning the areas occupied by the great Indo-European invasion, reaching from India to Ireland, and proceeds to analyze all aspects of the cultures across this vast region. Along the way, he proves that the broad family of Indo-European language speakers had a common origin at some distant point in the past.
Spirits in Stone: The Secrets of Megalithic America
In this comprehensive guide to hundreds of lost, forgotten and misidentified megalithic stone structures in northeastern America, Glenn Kreisberg documents many enigmatic formations still standing across the Catskill Mountain and Hudson Valley region, complete with functioning solstice and equinox alignments. Sites include the Wall of the Manitou, Devil’s Tombstone and Overlook Mountain. Spirits in Stone is a groundbreaking study of ceremonial stone landscapes in northeast America and their relationship to other sites around the world Kreisberg provides a first-person description of the “Wall of the Manitou,” which runs for 10 miles along the eastern slopes of the Catskill Mountains, as well as narratives about related sites that include animal effigies, reproductive imagery, calendar stones, enigmatic inscriptions and evidence of celestial alignments.
The Great Pyramid Hoax: The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt
By Scott Creighton. Foreword by Laird Scranton. The origins of the Great Pyramid of Giza are shrouded in mystery. Believed to be the tomb of an Egyptian king, even though no remains have ever been found, its construction date of roughly 2550 B.C. is tied to only one piece of evidence: the crudely painted marks within the pyramid’s hidden chambers that refer to the 4th Dynasty’s King Khufu, discovered in 1837 by Col. Howard Vyse and his team. Using evidence from the time of the discovery, along with high-definition photos of the actual marks, Creighton reveals how and why the marks were faked.
The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Texts: A Firsthand Account of the Expedition
Hidden for 16 centuries, the Nag Hammadi library, the most prodigious collection of sacred gnostic texts, were discovered in the late 1940s in Chenoboskion, a remote hamlet in upper Egypt. Among them was the Gospel according to Thomas, which aroused international publicity and alerted the world to the significance of this archeological find, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance. Here is the original survey of the contents of these documents and their significance.