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The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

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Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

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The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, by A.H.M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, and J. Morris. This invaluable reference work was begun by Jones and completed by two of his student-colleagues. The ...