Ancient Dark Age

The Dark Ages is the story of the birth of Western civilization. It was a harrowing crucible of war, destruction, and faith. For over 100 years, Charles Oman's famous history has remained one of the finest sources for the study of this period. Covering a period of 500 years and an area stretching from Northern Germany to Egypt, this is the definitive history that will alter your conceptions of a period of history that gave birth to the civilization we live in today.

The fires went out. The scribes stopped writing. And then, for three hundred years, silence. We call it a dark age because we lost sight of it—not because nothing happened. Behind that silence, a shattered world was quietly rebuilding itself into something its ancestors would never have recognized. The First Dark Age follows the survivors of history's most complete collapse: the people who lived through the fall of the Bronze Age and, slowly, built the classical world out of its wreckage. What you'll discover: How families fed themselves and held communities together after the palace ...

Around 1200 BC, eight civilizations fell together, within a single human lifetime. Then came the strangest part: for centuries, nobody rebuilt. The Hittite Empire vanished so completely that its name had to be dug out of the ground three thousand years later. Mycenaean Greece lost its palaces, its kings, and writing itself—the Greeks stayed illiterate for four hundred years. Ugarit, one of the richest ports on earth, burned in mid-correspondence and was never occupied again. From the Aegean to the Euphrates, the same black destruction layer runs through the earth at roughly the same date....

Late one evening, en route to visit a relative, an accident leaves Tory - the attractive, twenty-something daughter of a prominent history professor – stranded near a ring of stones in Britain. Tory resolves to spend the night at the stone circle and seek help in the morning... But across the vortex of time and space, she is taken back to the Dark Age.

For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible love set against the backdrop of the Nazi regime. She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction… As the dutiful daughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer...

Updated throughout with recent developments and additional illustrations Reveals how solar outbursts caused the end of the last ice age, unleashed catastrophe upon ancient advanced civilizations, and led to six millennia of a Solar-Induced Dark Age Includes evidence from solar...

3 Books. 1 Epic Destiny. Over 750 Pages of Time-Traveling Magic! "A fun, fast read for all ages... Hard to put down!" — Kindle Customer Jack Mac Paidin was five years old when his parents were killed — and grew up separated from his brother and sister, never knowing why. When he touches a golden telescope hidden beneath the streets of Portland, fire erupts in his hands, a lifetime of secrets come to light, and nothing will ever be the same. A shadowy organization called the Dark Cabal has been pulling strings for generations, and now they have their sights set on Jack and his siblings. ...

She drew his blood. Now she belongs to him. For eight years, Hannah Mitchell has been the only thing standing between her village and destruction. The exhausted protector. The one who fights when everyone else runs. The woman who's never been allowed to need anyone—because she's always been the one others need. When Stone Court demands a tribute her village can't pay, Hannah does the unthinkable: she invokes an ancient blood debt law, challenging the Guardian to single combat. If she draws his blood, her village goes free. No one has drawn Guardian Karax's blood in seven hundred years. ...

Laurel Voss came to Ashbourne University for dead languages, not living magic. She’s a scholarship girl with ink on her fingers and a strict promise to her parents: real subjects only. No dueling circles, no dangerous spellcraft, and definitely no getting attached to anyone with power over her future. Then she takes an archives job beneath the gothic library and finds a thin, nameless book that hums in her hands. To everyone else, its pages are blank. To Laurel, the runes blur into meaning—whispers of foundations that remember, “anchors” made of flesh and will, and a hungry presence...

The continuation of Donovan Cook’s thrilling Dark Age, action-packed historical adventure series. A must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Matthew Harffy A storm is rising in the north. A storm of iron and fire. Of hatred and vengeance. 451AD Britainnia Octa has returned from the Saxon...

Magic, danger, and epic fantasy collide in this spellbinding first book of the Silent Archmage series, where an archmage seeking peace enrolls in a magic academy, only to be swept into a treacherous magical adventure. Syl, an archmage who tirelessly fought the monsters spilling from the magical...

“The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer Prize After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost...

The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach. Burdened by a dark...

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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Following his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns us to the realms of Arthurian legend . . . Britain is a land riven by anarchy, slaughter, famine, filth and darkness. Its armies are destroyed, its heroes dead, or missing...

Rome didn't fall. It bled out — over three hundred years. By the time Odoacer deposed the last western emperor in 476, the empire had already been hemorrhaging for two centuries. Plague had killed a third of its population. Civil war had run forty-some emperors through the meat grinder in fifty years. Cities had shrunk, coinage had debased, and the men who once called themselves Romans were paying tribute to Goths and watching their grandchildren grow up speaking a different language. The strange part isn't that Rome fell. It's that Rome lasted as long as it did — and that the half of ...

For fans of The Poppy War, She Who Became the Sun and The Will of the Many, a breathtaking fantasy novel about the daughter of an overthrown emperor from an exciting new voice Khamilla Zahr-zad’s life has been built on a foundation of violence and vengeance. Every home she’s known has been...

The culture and events of Greece were so influential they have a significant effect on modern-day people all over the world. The ancient Greeks gave birth to democracy, a political system frequently used and considered by some as the best form of government. Great minds from Greece also made incredible and vital discoveries such as the water mill, the basics of geometry and using medicine to cure illness. The ancient Greek philosophers laid the groundwork for a whole new field of thought and study.

The Spy. The Shadow. The Secret. Claire Whitmore isn’t a damsel; she’s an elite intelligence operative who eats ciphers for breakfast. When her sister Rosalind starts sending letters that sound wrong, Claire doesn't just worry—she infiltrates. She’s got a perfect cover, espionage experience, and a mission to crack the Mist Court wide open. Too bad she’s walking into a trap designed by an ancient fae male who has been obsessed with her for six months. Lord Vaelis Nebulon has been running high-stakes intelligence since before Claire’s city existed. He didn’t just wait for his ...

Laurel Voss is supposed to be a student, not the spine of a haunted university. After surviving Ashbourne’s living foundations, Laurel knows the campus isn’t just cursed—it’s watching, remembering, and writing its own story through the runes carved into her bones. Now the High Arcanum has arrived with gray coats, null-stone, and polite threats. To them, Laurel is a rare asset: the girl who hears the Hollow breathe, a problem they can relocate to a lab or seal under stone. To the Hollow, she’s something worse and better—its chosen anchor, the one person who can nudge the ...