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Mark Healy reveals why the Assyrian Empire was a power to be reckoned wi
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