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  • The El Omari Culture

    How Egypt's Early Farmers, Herders and Fishers Lived at Wadi Hof on the Edge of the Nile Delta

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Long before Egypt had kings, crowns or pyramids, a community of farmers, herders and fishers lived on a gravel terrace just north of modern Helwan, where a dry desert valley called Wadi Hof meets the Nile. Archaeologists call them the El Omari culture. They left no monuments and no writing, only pits dug into the ground. Those pits turn out to be one of the richest records of everyday life in ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Fayum A Culture

    Understand How Egypt's Earliest Known Farmers Lived Beside a Desert Lake, and Why Archaeologists Still Debate Their Story

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Long before the pharaohs, on the northern shore of a lake west of the Nile, people began to combine fishing with crops and livestock brought from far away. Archaeologists call them the Fayum A culture. Their basket-lined granaries, flint sickles and polished pottery have made them a fixture of textbooks as Egypt's first farmers. But a century of research has turned that simple picture into one of ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Merimde Culture

    A Clear Account of How Egypt's First Village Farmers Lived on the Nile Delta Long Before Its First Kings

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    On the western edge of the Nile Delta, about forty-five kilometers northwest of Cairo, lies a low mound that holds one of the earliest permanent farming villages in North Africa. Its inhabitants grew wheat and barley, herded cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, fished the river, and buried their dead beside their own homes. The Merimde culture they left behind has been excavated, lost, re-excavated, ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Younger Dryas

    A Science-Grounded Account of the Comet Debate, the Great Floods, and the Cold That Reshaped the Ancient World

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    The last Ice Age did not end quietly. Just as the world was warming and the great glaciers were pulling back, the climate lurched violently into reverse, plunging much of the Northern Hemisphere back into cold for more than a thousand years. That interruption is the Younger Dryas, and it happened at the precise hinge between the age of mammoths and the dawn of farming, writing, and settled life ... Read more

    $3.62 USD

  • The Old Babylonian Period Explained

    Understand the Competing Dates, the Real Shape of Hammurabi's Empire, and How Ordinary People Lived in Ancient Mesopotamia

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Hammurabi reigned for about forty-three years. He spent roughly twenty-nine of them digging canals and rebuilding temples. The conquests that made his name took under a decade, the empire held at full extent for something like fifteen years, and his son had lost the far south within about eleven years of inheriting it.That gap between the reputation and the record runs through the whole period, ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Neo-Assyrian Empire: Power, People, and the Machinery of Rule

    Follow How Assyria Built, Governed, and Lost Power Across the Ancient Middle East

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    The Neo-Assyrian Empire dominated the political world of the ancient Middle East, yet its reputation for warfare can hide the more demanding achievement behind its expansion: governing people, information, resources, and distance.This narrative traces Assyria from recovery in its northern Mesopotamian heartland to the reigns that carried its armies across the region. It places royal inscriptions ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Achaemenid Empire Explained

    Understand How a Royal House from Southern Iran Governed Dozens of Peoples for Two Centuries, and Why Alexander Brought It Down

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Around 550 BCE, a king from a highland valley in southern Iran defeated his Median overlord. Within a generation his family ruled from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River, governing tens of millions of people who shared no common language, religion, or capital. The Achaemenid Empire Explained tells how that state was built, how it functioned for two centuries, and why it collapsed in a handful of ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Early Dynastic I Period

    What Archaeology Actually Knows About Sumer's Earliest Walled Cities

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Open three reference works on early Mesopotamia and you will find three different date ranges for the same period, each hedged with a slash. That is not sloppiness. It is the visible seam of a chronological scheme assembled in the 1930s from two temple sequences in a single river valley, and applied ever since to a region it was never built to describe.This book takes that problem as its subject ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • Ancient Egypt from First Village to Final Inscription

    Learn When the Pharaohs' State Began, How the Pyramid Crews Worked, and Why Its Temples and Script Were Abandoned

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Ask when Egyptian civilization began and you will be given dates thousands of years apart. Ask why it ended and the answers disagree by more than six centuries. The problem is rarely a lack of information. It is that most accounts never say what they are measuring.This book is a clear, evidence-first account of ancient Egypt from the first farming villages on the Nile to the last hieroglyphic ... Read more

    $4.60 USD

  • The Isin-Larsa Period: Mesopotamia Between Ur and Hammurabi

    A reader's journey through the dates, dynasties, maps and everyday evidence of the age that shaped Babylonia

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Between the fall of Ur and the rise of Hammurabi lie roughly two hundred and sixty years that most accounts of Mesopotamia cross in a single paragraph. Two cities in southern Iraq, forty kilometres apart, spent generations competing for the inheritance of a fallen empire. Neither finished the job, and a dozen other kingdoms rose and vanished around them.That untidiness is the reason to read the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Gutians: The Mountain People Who Toppled the Akkadian Empire

    What archaeology, clay tablets, and the 4.2-kiloyear climate event reveal about ancient Mesopotamia's lost century

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    They were called dogs from the mountains, snakes, and a swarm of locusts. The scribes who wrote that had just watched the first empire in human history fall apart — and they blamed the people who came down from the Zagros: the Gutians.For about a century, this mountain people ruled the richest land of the ancient world. Then they were written out of it. What survives is a near-blank space where a ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • The Capitalism Question

    Learn Where It Came From, How It Works, and Why People Argue About Its Future

    by LAB Editorial Team ...
    Everyone argues about capitalism. Few people can say exactly what it is.It is blamed for inequality and credited with lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. It is called natural by some and a historical accident by others. It organizes your job, your rent, your pension and the phone in your pocket. This book offers a clear, balanced account of the system: what it is, how it works, ... Read more

    $4.60 USD