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Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Ur, Assyrians, Babylon, Hammurabi and the Persian Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Richard Savage, Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins
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Taken together, the civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, and Persia have helped form the modern makeup of Mesopotamia, western Asia, and the world. However, to really understand why things are the way they are, it’s important to break up this historical timeline and spend some time learning about each society. Only by doing this will you be able to fully appreciate the powerful impact these ancient peoples had on our modern world.
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exellent
- By Steven Wilson on 07-06-19
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Mesopotamia: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Mesopotamian History and Civilizations, Including the Sumerians and Sumerian Mythology, Gilgamesh, Ur, Assyrians, Babylon, Hammurabi and the Persian Empire
- Narrated by: Richard Savage, Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, David Patton
- Length: 21 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-02-19
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Way
- How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
- By: Edith Hall
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all be happy in a meaningful, sustained way - and he led by example. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don’t know your Odyssey from your Iliad.
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Spoiled by the author's politics seeping in
- By Matthew on 27-12-20
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Aristotle’s Way
- How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-01-20
- Language: English
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Lost to the West
- The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
- By: Lars Brownworth
- Narrated by: Lars Brownworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy...
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Lost to the West
- The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
- Narrated by: Lars Brownworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 15-09-09
- Language: English
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- By: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Cleopatra’s palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ.
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Excellent for studying Cleo
- By Souzan on 10-04-13
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-08-11
- Language: English
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Ancient Aliens®
- The Official Companion Book
- By: The Producers of Ancient Aliens
- Narrated by: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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The first official companion book to HISTORY network’s hit series Ancient Aliens: a powerful journey through human history that explores fascinating unanswered questions about the origins of our civilizations. With a foreword by Series Creator, Kevin Burns. Millions of people around the...
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Better to watch the series
- By David Hughes on 14-11-20
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Ancient Aliens®
- The Official Companion Book
- Narrated by: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Robert Clotworthy, Burns Kevin
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance30
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.
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yes
- By adamdw499 on 23-02-24
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- By: Virginia Postrel
- Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth” (The New York Times)...
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The Fabric of Civilization
- How Textiles Made the World
- Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-02-26
- Language: English
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Marching with Caesar
- Birth of the 10th Legion
- By: R.W. Peake
- Narrated by: Simon Burdett
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Titus Pullus, the hero of the 10th Legion and the Marching With Caesar series, tells his story from the very beginning of his life, starting with his relationship with his father, how his friendship with Vibius Domitius began, and how their burning ambition to join the Legions was helped by a veteran nicknamed Cyclops. Enlisting in the 10th Legion, raised in 61 B.C. by Gaius Julius Caesar, Birth of the 10th Legion recounts the first campaign ever conducted by Julius Caesar as a commander...
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Not just another sword and sandals epic
- By Iain S. Palin on 24-11-18
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Marching with Caesar
- Birth of the 10th Legion
- Narrated by: Simon Burdett
- Series: Marching With Caesar, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-06-14
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Forbidden History
- Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization
- By: J. Douglas Kenyon - editor
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timms Edited by Atlantis Rising...
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quote unquote
- By Fiona on 01-04-25
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Forbidden History
- Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- By: Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier tell the Denisovans’ story in The Secret World of Denisovans. Leading us through the excavation of Denisova cave, the sequencing of the Denisovan genome, and recent research on Denisovan fossils, Condemi and Savatier uncover how the Denisovans migrated to Asia, who they interacted with along the way, and why traces of Denisovan DNA can be found in modern-day humans.
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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Those Who Are About To Die
- Gladiators and the Roman Mind: The New History by the Bestselling Author
- By: Harry Sidebottom
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Dressed in armour and clutching a bloody sword, the Roman gladiator is the most iconic figure of the ancient world. Both fascinating and repulsive to us now, he was in his own time a deeply controversial character, by turns hated and idealized – and always at the...
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A Myth Busting Book
- By JOHN PAUL MARTIN on 29-09-25
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Those Who Are About To Die
- Gladiators and the Roman Mind: The New History by the Bestselling Author
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Giza: The Tesla Connection
- Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
- By: Christopher Dunn
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Explains how the pyramids harmonized seismic energy, which enabled the harvesting of electricity and the mitigation of earthquakes Shares recent cutting-edge research on earthquake lights, acoustic frequency measurements and energy concentration within the Great Pyramid, the shafts of...
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Ai narrator??
- By barry d. on 05-01-26
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Giza: The Tesla Connection
- Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
- Narrated by: Micah Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Socrates
- By: Plato, Christopher Rowe, Christopher Rowe - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth. 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
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The narrator really brings the people to life
- By Kristina on 15-09-21
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The Last Days of Socrates
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- By: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 13-05-25
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Ravenna
- Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From...
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Superb overview of Ravenna as the cradle of early Christianity in the West
- By Aurifex on 26-12-20
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Ravenna
- Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- By: Thucydides
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The rivalry between two of the dominant city states of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, erupted into a war lasting nearly 30 years and was to have a dramatic effect on the balance of power in the area. Between 431 and 404 BCE, the two cities battled it out on land and sea, aided by their alliances with neighbouring states: Athens’ Delian League vigorously opposed Sparta’s Peloponnesian League in a conflict which effectively involved the whole region.
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Small mistakes in translation
- By Nausicaa on 10-09-24
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Narrated by: Mike Rogers
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-06-19
- Language: English
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Economica
- A Financial Times Best Book of 2025
- By: Victoria Bateman
- Narrated by: Victoria Bateman
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025, as chosen by Martin Wolf 'Economica is an epic story . . . an important retelling of global economic history that puts women at the centre . . . Bateman is a great storyteller . . . a rare, long-term perspective on gender equality' - Financial Times 'This...
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Economica
- A Financial Times Best Book of 2025
- Narrated by: Victoria Bateman
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning
- Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty
- By: Anthony A. Barrett
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, 64 AD and fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told for more than two millennia - and it’s likely that almost none of it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate aftermath, and its damaging long term consequences for the Roman world.
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Rome Is Burning
- Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
- By: Michael D. Coogan - editor
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have begun to synthesize this material with the biblical traditions. The Oxford History of the Biblical World incorporates the best of this scholarship, and in chronologically ordered chapters presents the listener with an integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts.
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 06-11-23
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
- Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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