Ancient History

Introduction: Beyond the Symbol of Love Globally recognized as the ultimate monument to love, the Taj Mahal has been poetically...

Introduction: Cracking the Calvert Code For years, when lecturing on the founding of the American colonies, the story of Maryland...

Beyond the Man of Gold: My Journey to Understand the Real Mansa Musa As a historian, I’ve spent years wrestling...

Introduction: The End of an Era, The Survival of a Cousin The close of the Pleistocene epoch, roughly 12,000 years...

Part I: The Historian's Dilemma: When Facts Fail to Tell the Truth For twenty years, I have lived and breathed...

Introduction: The Deathbed and the Fable In the winter of 1324, as Marco Polo lay on his deathbed in his...

Introduction: The Frustration of a Simple Answer I still remember the first time I stood before the Great Pyramid at...

A Wall of Contradictions The air on the battlements is thin and sharp. Standing on a restored section of the...

I once chased a ghost. It was a high-stakes project, the kind that could define a career. For months, my...