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The Stonehenge Scrolls    by K.P. Robbins
Price: $5.50 USD. 50150 words. Language: English. Published by MuseItUp Publishing  on January 19, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

Ancient scrolls reveal the secrets of Stonehenge and an archaeologist blogs about their meaning in this compelling first novel.
Wessex Tales: "Julia" (Story 11)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 8960 words. Language: English. Published on January 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

This story in the "Wessex Tales" collection—"Julia" (Story 11)—is sequel to "The Face in the Floor" (Story 10). It was Julia’s parents who commissioned their villa's magnificent mosaic floor in the previous tale; as a child, she watched the master-mosaicist lay it. As "Julia" begins, Julia is a young woman angry at life, angrier at expectations, and resisting marriage. (circa 335 CE)
Camelthorn Giants: Explore    by Jaco de Beer
Price: Free! 4240 words. Language: English. Published by Kameeldoring Boeke  on January 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

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This is a historic novel about Coenraad de Buys and his quest to find the African cities of gold.
Ghost Walkers of the Western Desert    by Tom Standard
Price: $1.99 USD. 49680 words. Language: American English. Published on January 18, 2013. Fiction » Adventure » General.

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What happens when a lost remnant of the ancient Egyptians rescues a downed pilot? What treasures and adventures are revealed? Duty demands a return to base to face the music for losing his aircraft. Maybe Maat does not exist - but it could. Come see what it might reveal if we ever find Pharaoh's lost colony. And see how Divine Providence can make something good out of what was intended to be evil
Wessex Tales: "The Face in the Floor" (Story 10)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 8170 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

The earliest known mosaic floor to depict Christ was laid in a remote Roman villa in Dorset around 325 CE. (Discovered under meadow grass in 1963 it was moved to the British Museum.) The larger end of this mosaic measures 17 feet by 15, the smaller end, 16½ feet by 8. Why lay this magnificent floor in rustic Dorset? “The Face in the Floor" gives the origins of this floor an imaginative history.
Wessex Tales: "In the land of the great stone rings" (Story 5)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 9070 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

Turig, a Bronze Age farmer, tells his grandson how he had been drafted for labor service decades before. The work was long and dangerous but his supervisor’s flirtatious daughter presented the larger threat. Two years later, Turig helped lift the last sarsen stone onto a structure we know as Stonehenge. [PS: New research revises this date by a full millennium, from 3,600 to 4,600 years ago.]
Wessex Tales: "The Infant and the Hare" (Story 1)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 5150 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

“The Infant and the Hare” is the first, earliest story in Fripp’s new collection, “Wessex Tales: eight thousand years in the life of an English village.” Stone Age hunters make camp on Okeford Hill. As dawn breaks the men go hunting while a woman gives birth. And the end? In an age when human beliefs were much different than ours, the end is mystical.
Under the Shadow of the Moon    by Sharon Desruisseaux
Price: $3.98 USD. 106030 words. Language: English. Published by Brooks-Goding Publications  on January 15, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

Book Two The story of Cleopatra Selene continues.Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of the last pharaoh of Egypt, the legendary Cleopatra VII. She and her siblings have been torn away from their homeland after the brutal deaths of their parents.Cleopatra Selene fights desperately to bring her mother in the good light after the Romans depicted her as a harlot.Will She find justice and restore order
Legacy of the Moon    by Sharon Desruisseaux
Price: $3.98 USD. 80440 words. Language: English. Published by Brooks-Goding Publications  on January 14, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

Book One The Story of Cleopatra Selene Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of the last pharaoh of Egypt, the legendary Cleopatra VII. She and her siblings have been torn away from their homeland after the brutal deaths of their parents. Cleopatra Selene fights desperately to bring her mother in the good light after the Romans depicted her as a harlot. Will She find justice and restore order?
Vengeance & Remission    by Amalia Angellinni
Price: $0.99 USD. 205990 words. Language: English. Published on January 10, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

It is a story about a Roman soldier, Marcus Lucius, son of the great warrior Maximus, who protects his friends (Appius, Octavian) and falls in love in Julia Fabia, while he is on the way to revenge his killed wife, Decima. It's a story with many risky actions, intrigues and it's about friendship, loyalty and of course love. It's set in the times of the emperor Hadrian.