Egypt, in the Western Nile Delta- The city established by Alexander the Great after his conquest of Egypt. Alexandria was a place of great learning and advancement. The ancient library at Alexandria is known to be the largest in the Hellenistic era. Alexandria also offered a museum for the study …

The Latin East will include 26 detailed and carefully illustrated regional and tactical maps.

400 BCE

Hippocrates was a philosopher who lived in the time of Socrates. His contribution to medical science is notable, since he is regarded to have been the first philosopher to acknowledge a distinction between medicine and philosophy. Hippocrates focused on natural explanations and cures for disease rather than philosophical …

I just submitted 26 regional and strategic maps for Volume 1 of Warfare in the Age of Crusades, The Latin East.

It's coming next month!

164 BCE

When Seleucid king Antiochus IV, 175- 163 BCE, lead troops into Jerusalem, Judas Maccabaeus lead a revolt in which the Jews were able to capture the Temple of Jerusalem. The holiday of Hanukkah is celebrated each year by Jewish people in remembrance of this event.

295 BCE

A revolutionary figure in Greek literature, who ignored conventional wisdom that writers should stick to short poems, and wrote an epic known as Argonautica. Argonautica tells the story of Jason, who sought the fabled Golden Fleece.