With its many site plans and maps, readable text, and 96 color photos, this book makes available for the first time the immensely wealthy history, archaeology, and architecture of Syria to the general reader and interested traveler. von...

This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition, and examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball...

From legends of Amazons and Gog and Magog to the emergence of modern Europe's superpower, the open steppe has continually shaped Europe's destiny. A geographical entity, not a political one, it connects the western and eastern parts of...

It has become conventional to think of the Turkish capture of Constantinople in 1453 as an Asiatic conquest. The Turks originated in Asiait is truebut Constantinople was conquered from the west not the east: the Ottomans became a...