Uncover the all-conquering Hun king whose nomadic horde terrorised Rome

What the West owes to the ancient world

All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.

A tolerant Shia rival to the Sunni caliphs

Pachacuti, the ninth Inca monarch, expanded the empire’s boundaries and forged a cohesive, tightly governed state

The jungle warfare in the Far East was both a tactical and political challenge for British forces in WWII