History Audio Books

Plutarch
Plutarch's Lives

A brilliant Greek writer and philosopher, Plutarch wrote detailed biographies of 46 legendary...

Pompeii: City Captured in Ash

On August 24 and 25 in the year 79 A.D., a Volcanic eruption from Mt. Vesuvius spewed fire...

Ellen G. White
Prophets and Kings: The Rise and Fall of a Chosen Nation (Unabridged)

This book begins with King Solomon's reign and ends just before Jesus' birth, but don't expect to hear an historical record as in a textbook....

Barbara Mertz
Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Unabridged)

Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968.

Plutarch
Roman Lives (Unabridged Selections)

Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire....

Polybius
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 1: The Histories (Unabridged)

Volume 1 begins with a review of events leading up to Hannibal's invasion of Italy....

Polybius
Rome and the Mediterranean Vol. 2: The Histories (Unabridged)

After 18 years of desperate struggle, Rome has gradually turned the tide against Hannibal....

Tom Holland
Rubicon

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history....

Colin Wells
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Unabridged)

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia....

Dr. Jon Mandaville
Science in Antiquity (Unabridged)

The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever....