Mesopotamia

• Ancient discovery or mystery,The Third Samnite War and the Struggle for Italian Dominance

  By the dawn of the final decade of the fourth century BCE, Rome stood at a crossroads unlike any it had ever faced. The Latin League had been disassembled, the Volsci and Aequi pushed back into impertinence, and the Etruscan trouble, though moping to the north, had been kept in check through tactfulness and occasional intervention. Yet despite these palms and the instigation tipping in Rome’s favour,

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• Ancient discovery or mystery,The Fall of Veii and the Coming of the Gauls

  By the morning of the fourth century BCE, Rome had fought so numerous small wars that discipline and continuity had come alternate nature. But up to this point, Rome had n't yet faced a rival truly equal in wealth, size, or ambition. That changes with Veii. The long, exhausting conflict with this Etruscan hustler — and the catastrophe that followed soon after — forces Rome to evolve faster than ever ahead.

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• Ancient discovery or mystery, Rome’s Expansion in Italy

  By the launch of the fourth century BCE, Rome was no longer a fragile democracy fighting for survival. It had survived internal class conflict, reorganized its political system, and proven its adaptability after the trauma of being sacked by the Gauls. Now it was ready — nearly fated — to rise beyond Latium. But the path to getting the dominant power of Italy was n’t smooth. It was a grim chain of wars, reforms, alliances, and political pushes that hardened the Republic into the force that would ultimately conquer the Mediterranean. This part focuses on the period from  

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• Ancient discovery or mystery,The Birth of Rome

  The Roman civilization began long before marble tabernacles, military vanquishing, or emperors commanding vast homes. To understand how it all started, we must go back to the early Iron Age of central Italy, a time when the world was far simpler yet bulging with forces that would soon shape history.   

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• Ancient discovery or mystery,The Byzantine Legacy, The Greek World Reborn

  When the Roman Empire split in the late fourth century CE, many could have prognosticated that the eastern half — embedded in Greek culture — would not only survive the coming centuries of chaos but outlive its western binary by nearly a thousand times. The intricate Conglomerate, as after chroniclers called it, was in substance the Greek world revived under a Roman crown. Its capital, Constantinople,

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