George Rawlinson: 45 books
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Babylon, the capital of the Fourth Monarchy, was probably the largest and most magnificent city of the ancient world. A dim tradition current in the East gave, it is true, a greater extent, if not a greater splendor, to the metropolis of Assyria; but this tradition first appears in ages subsequent...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Chaldea was a Semitic-speaking nation which existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC. This book brings the complete history of Chaldean nation and gives insight into...
The History of Babylon
Illustrated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Babylon was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BCE. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. he town became part of a small independent city-state...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The Parthians do not appear in history until a comparatively recent period. Their name occurs nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures. They obtain no mention in the Zendavesta. The Assyrian Inscriptions are wholly silent concerning them. It is not until the time of Darius Hystaspis that we have trustworthy...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In shape Egypt is like a lily with a crooked stem. A broad blossom terminates it at its upper end; a button of a bud projects from the stalk a little below the blossom, on the left-hand side. The broad blossom is the Delta, extending from Aboosir to Tineh, a direct distance of a hundred and eighty...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Persian Empire
Illustrated Edition: Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, The Great Emperors: Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The First Persian Empire was a country of the Achaemenid dynasty, based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was larger than any previous empire in history. This book describes...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
PERSIA (Illustrated)
Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The First Persian Empire was a country of the Achaemenid dynasty, based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of Parthian Empire
Illustrated Edition: A Complete History from the Establishment to the Downfall of the Empire: Geography of Parthia Proper, The Region, Ethnic Character of the Parthians, Revolts of Bactria and Parthia
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The Parthian Empire was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. Arsaces I of Parthia, a leader of the Parni tribe, founded the country in the mid-3rd century BC when he conquered the region of Parthia in Iran's northeast, then a province in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire....
PARTHIA (Illustrated)
Geography of Parthia Proper, The Region, Ethnic Character of the Parthians, Revolts of Bactria and Parthia
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Parthian Empire was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. Arsaces I of Parthia, a leader of the Parni tribe, founded the country in the mid-3rd century BC when he...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This carefully edited historical collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia, ancient...