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Forgotten Peoples Of the ancient World
[Paperback - 2022]
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Category: History
Sub-category: Ancient History
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Uk | ISBN: 9780500296943 | Pages: 288
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The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews. Yet the roughly four-and-a-half thousand years (4000 bc–ad 550) covered in this book saw many peoples come and go within the brawling, multi-cultural mass of humanity that occupied the ancient Middle East, Mediterranean and beyond. While a handful of ancient cultures have garnered much of the credit, these forgotten peoples also helped to lay the foundations of our modern world. This guide brings these lost peoples out of the shadows to highlight their influence and achievements.

Forty-five entries span the birth of civilization in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, offering an alternative history focusing on the names we aren’t familiar with, from the Hurrians to the Hephthalites, as well as the peoples whose names we know, such as the Philistines and the Vandals, but whose real significance has been obscured. Each entry charts the rise and fall of a lost people, and how their culture echoes through history into the present. Important ancient artefacts are illustrated throughout and fifty specially drawn maps help orientate the reader within this tumultuous period of history. Philip Matyszak brings to life the rich diversity of the peoples founding cities, inventing alphabets and battling each other in the ancient world, and explores how and why they came to be forgotten.

Ancient history has been my job and my hobby for the last 30 years. I spend a lot of time immersed in the world of antiquity, and whenever I come up a story or an idea that I would like to share with the rest of the world I write about it.

At other times, when there s some information I want, and there s no readily available book that offers this, I write that book too. Some of my students (I also teach) have never before been introduced to the ancient world. It s a fascinating place, as different as any alternative universe, but real. I always get excited by exploring there, and there s always something new to find.

At various times, I ve lived on three different continents, and spent several wonderful years in Italy living right on top of the material I was writing about. I m now in Canada with a home deep in the mountains of British Columbia, but there s a part of me that is still in Rome lurking in the shadows of the ancient forum.

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