History: Hittites

Posted on Sun 18 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, people

Mesopotamia- Combined Indo-European and native people in Asia Minor formed the Hittite kingdom, 1750 BCE. The capital of the Hittite kingdom was Hattusha, now called Bogazk"oy in modern Turkey. The Hittites began to spread outward by 1600 BCE, and began to establish an empire. After years of conflict, the …


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Massacre Sites during the German Crusade, 1096

Posted on Mon 12 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, cartography, art, illustrator, mapping, crusades

After 20 years since the start of the first book, I have started work illustrating the historical maps for Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Volume One: The Latin East - Coming 2021!

Truthfully, the technology has gotten easier to work with in 2020.

The Jewish Massacres during the German Crusade, 1096


Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate

Posted on Sun 11 October 2020 in food • Tagged with dinner, fall, pumpkin

Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate 🎃 - slow cooker pumpkin soup par moi, @greatharvest recipe pumpkin bread made by @cairns_kelly, Mediterranean salad with roasted pumpkinseeds #whatsfordinner #autumn

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Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate


History: Amenhotep IV, Akhenaton

Posted on Sun 11 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, person

1364- 1347 BCE - The son of Amenhotep the III. Amenhotep IV was preoccupied with the worship of Aton, god of the sun disk. Amenhotep changed his name to Akhenaton, which means "It is well with Aton" and closed temples of other gods, including Atum-Re. Atum-Re was popular in Thebes, so …


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The Crusades

Posted on Mon 05 October 2020 in books • Tagged with history, cartography, art, illustrator, mapping, crusades, warfare

I've started work on Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Volume One: The Latin East

Tabula Rasa: 1095 or now?

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History: New Kingdom

Posted on Sun 04 October 2020 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

1567- 1085 -- The pharaoh Ahmose I defeated and expelled the Hyksos from Egypt, reuniting the kingdom to end the age of chaos. This established the eighteenth dynasty and a period of Egyptian civilization historians refer to as "The New Kingdom." This period of Egyptian civilization was marked by improvements in …


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