Road to Manzikert chronicles the history of the Byzantine Empire and it’s series of conflicts with the Islamic world. For the first time it will be available in paperback starting in March 2021. Pen and Sword Books #history #military #cartography

900- 1000 BCE - See Covenant.

Israel, Palestine, Assyria, and the Levant- The Hebrews are a semitic speaking people with origins on the Arabian Peninsula. The Hebrews have origins as far back as 1600 BCE, and are still prominent in the modern day world. The Hebrew's biblical texts including the Torah and the Talmud served as …

Palestine, Levant- A Semitic speaking people originating on the Arabian Peninsula. The Phoenician people had settled in the region of Palestine, on the Mediterranean coast, since early times. The Phoenician city of Byblos was a major trading center for the middle east in the early first millennia BCE, in particular …

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 …

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.