Ancient Dark Age

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 ...

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.

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. ...

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 ...

Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Discover the brutal, unvarnished truth of Viking-era medicine and battlefield survival. For generations, the Norse sagas and modern mythmakers have fed us a sanitized fantasy of the unfeeling Viking berserker. Beyond the Shield-Wall: The Savage Medicine and Silent Agony of the Viking Age by Tomas Somerled completely shatters this cinematic lie. This immersive historical nonfiction book plunges you into the terrifying reality of 9th-century warfare, revealing the horrific trauma and crude medical interventions that defined survival in the Dark Ages. The Norse did not possess a magical ...

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...

THE EPIC ORIGIN STORY OF THE MAC PAIDIN BLOODLINE. Discover the secret history of Jack’s parents and the ancient war that shattered a family legacy. “A breathtaking journey into the past… the key to everything Jack becomes.” A legacy of light and shadow. A bloodline divided. A fate forged in secrets. Long before Jack Mac Paidin touched the golden telescope, his father Ross was the heir to a fortune he didn’t want. As the youngest child of Sir Edward Mac Paidin, Ross is destined to become the next Magic Hat Maker. But in 20th-century Ireland, a family legacy built on bloodlines and...

“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...

Survive the betrayal. Ignite the passion. Unleash the beast. Reap the dark. Welcome to my world—a world where trust is a double-edged sword and love can ignite the fiercest flames. My name is Calypso Violante. Former federal agent and dud. Dud. What the supernatural world calls regular humans. Those with no preternatural abilities. Former dud. That’s right. Now, I'm a panther shifter and a survivor. Shot by my traitorous partner, Nate, I'm left with a physical scar that runs as deep as the betrayal. But when Dominic, a brooding fire mage with secrets of his own, saves me, I find myself ...

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...

Shatter the Myths of Valhalla and Discover the Blood-Soaked Reality of Viking Medicine For centuries, the history of Norse healers has been sanitized, replacing the grim reality of battlefield triage with romantic tales of ethereal maidens and mystical forest herbs. In The Butcher's Apothecary: Blood, Fat, and the Brutal Reality of Viking Medicine, Tomas Somerled expertly dismantles this historical propaganda to reveal the horrific, unsterilized mechanics of ancient survival. This immersive and deeply visceral exploration of medieval combat medicine leaves the polite academic distance ...

When people think of ancient Greece, images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates often come to mind, as do great warriors like Pericles and Alexander the Great. But hundreds of years before Athens became a city, a Greek culture flourished and spread its tentacles throughout the Western Mediterranean region via trade and warfare. Scholars have termed this pre-Classical Greek culture the Mycenaean culture, which existed from about 2000 to 1200 BCE, when Greece, along with much of the Eastern Mediterranean, was thrust into a centuries-long Dark Ages.

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 ...

The age of gods is ending. But the age of mortals cannot begin until a reckless prince learns what it truly means to bleed. A crown he never wanted. An empire on the brink. A darkness that cannot be fought with steel alone. Prince Alexander of Alibus is exceptionally good at one thing: running away. Haunted by the death of his mother, he has spent his youth hiding in the rowdiest taverns of Tallinn, drowning his grief in sweet honey-mead and the hollow laughter of sycophants. He is a romantic, a dreamer, and a thoroughly reckless disappointment to his father, the great King Henry. But ...