Cover to Kim MacQuarrie's "The Last Days of the Incas"

The Last Days of the Incas

Between 1200-1230CE, a small tribe in the Andean highlands settled and began a new city-state named Cusco. By 1532, this tribe, the Inca, had assembled the largest empire in the western hemisphere, encompassing 770,000...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

To the victor go the spoils, or so it is said. That much, at the very least, is true when it comes to Rome vs. Carthage – the contest between the superpowers of the...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

The scale of Egyptian history is difficult to fathom. Perhaps the best way to illustrate this is through Cleopatra VII. When Cleopatra was born in 69BC, approximately 2087 years ago, the most ancient of...