Истории Antiquity

Historical Fiction Finalist:The 2016 Awards from AwardsForStories. In 1863 on the tiny island of Key West, Yankee spy Aaron Matthews must find and eliminate a deadly Rebel saboteur whom he fears just may be the woman he loves.

In the 6 century A.D. in Egypt a young man has his life completely turned upside down when he meets two monks. He realizes he, too, wishes to enter "the desert" - ie, the monastic life. But in the first ages of monasticism, the choices are multiple and Papnoute can't seem to find the model that suits him.

Ishtrix, the King of the Caninefates, ordered the execution of eight farmers to coverup his affair with a Greek noble woman, the wife of a legislator of the Roman administration of the Province Lower Germany. The Caninefatii people, who now are on good relations with Rome, support the conspiracy to maintain their political priviledges. Two teenagers, who live in Lugdunum Caninefatium, don't agree with the case and speak out against it.

All Barbara Spence had to do was meet the courier at the airport and deliver him to the hotel. Murder, a handsome detective, and the theft of an ancient scroll from a French crime lord, sends ripples across the ocean, where she is swept up in the killing of the courier, and an international hunt.

Perhaps you someday walked through a park and there you passed by a statue. Perhaps you asked yourself about the man on the pedestal, you asked yourself why he was honored and when he had died. Perhaps you even met a local who could explain everything you - but sometimes, nothing is like it seems. A short horror story, influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.

Matiyahu is a young sailor who often travels between Gaul (Roman France) and Hibernia (Ireland). One day he travels towards the Niger delta in Western Africa to meet his family members. He didn't see them in years. The journey goes different than planned.

In the middle of the Egyptian desert, an excavation crew headed by Peter Conrad hits upon a huge burial ground. The archaeologists quickly notice that things don't fit together. The mummies they find cannot be dated and show signs of severe congenital diseases. And the religious inscriptions littering the site are equally mysterious. As Egyptologist Lisa Franks discovers clues that the Nazis carried out top-secret excavations here back in the day, a member of the team is found stabbed to death. At the same time, East Berlin is shocked by a series of murders, that brings Volkspolizei-Hauptmann Josef Keller face to face with a conspiracy that goes back to the days of the Third Reich, and seems to be connected to the events in Egypt.

"Today, of all days, see How the most dangerous thing is to love, How you will heal and you'll rise above." (Gang of Youths, "Achilles Come Down") Telemachus of Ithaca x fem!oc {Epic: The Musical}

A collection of short stories and jokes in a world where all mythologies coexist

From the dark depths of ancient civilizations come tales of terror and horror that will chill you to the bone. Bella Darkwood's Cosmic Horrors of Antiquity is a collection of spine-tingling stories set in Greece, Rome, China, Mongolia, and America, where ancient myths come to life and haunt unsuspecting victims. In these pages, you'll encounter cosmic abominations, bloodthirsty monsters, and unspeakable horrors lurking around every corner. Prepare to be terrified as you journey through time and space, where no one is safe from the terrors that lurk in the shadows. If you're a fan of Lovecraftian horror or have a fascination with ancient mythology, then Cosmic Horrors of Antiquity is the book for you.

When David Brandon, a British archeologist, finds himself trapped alone in an ancient basement, separated from the rest of his team during their research in a small town in Lebanon, he finds a pile of dilapidated, yellow manuscripts. Later on, when his colleagues get him out, he doesn't tell anybody about his discovery. A wrong move? According to him, not really. After having cautiously studied the documents, he discovers that those papers are Phoenician parchments that relate important events no one ever heard of. Reading them and understanding the gravity of those files, he decides not to show them to the world and keep them to himself, for leaking dangerous content like that could create a worldwide tumult. Because, after all, history repeats itself, right? And what the archeologist wanted to avoid at all costs was the narrated events to happen again. 90 years later, his methods prove ineffective. 2020, in general, proves him wrong. No one could stop the course of history. The materials you're about to read, ladies and gentlemen, are exclusively brought to us by his grandson, a guy who figures that hiding the truth any longer would not help, but on the contrary, harm even more. By now, you should know the significance and magnitude of the following words, so read at your own risk.

"You feel it, don't you?" He said, his gaze transfixed on the swaying waters. "The rage hidden beneath this placated surface." He paused, "But the sea is a wild thing, and can only stay calm for so long.". These were the first words Hannibal Barca, general of the Carthaginian empire, said to me. I was young, but I had felt it too. The following years would be ones I would never forget; tumultuous, and heartbreaking. I would have to keep myself strong even while being torn between two empires. A re-telling of Sophonisbe's (a Carthaginian noblewoman from antiquity) life from a more poetic perspective. Enjoy!

Attila the Hun is dead. The terror of his memory lives on. The remnants of his hordes dream of land and plunder as a ragged assembly of Roman units attempt to hold the line. This is a short story.

Aether & The Sith (342 CE), is a short anthology about the origins of a mythological character, The Solsith. The Sith transformed during her lifetime, and amongst other things, was able to gift incredible power to her followers... those who became known as the druids.

The Pharaoh Cleopatra prepares for her final defeat as the invading army of Octavian, adopted son of Caesar, looms on the Egyptian horizon and her ally Marcus Antony plunges toward insanity. Sending her daughter Dedi far from the palace, she hopes the child will find sanctuary from the coming war.

Run, Forest, Run, because your time's almost up.