Acknowledgments

The foundations of this book draw from the wonderful material produced by innumerable scholars, professors, writers, archaeologists, historians, web owners, translators, and everyone else with a passion for history and science. I can’t list them all, as I’ve learned from so many over the years, but some of the key sources, including classics from which I’ve reproduced allowed text, are below:

Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/)

• Herodotus (~5th century BC), Histories
• Strabo (~1st century BC - 1st century AD), Geographica
• Plutarch (~1st century AD), Parallel Lives
• Cassius Dio (~2nd-3rd century AD), Rome
• Arrian (~1st century AD), The Anabasis of Alexander
• Livius, Appian of Alexandria (~2nd century AD)

Internet Digital Libraries

• Perseus Digital Library
• MIT Classics
• Attalus (https://www.attalus.org)

Others

• Dr. Aidan Dodson’s YouTube Lectures
• Brent Shaw, The Spartacus Slave War
• Barry Strauss, The Spartacus Wars
• Bob Brier, The Secrets of the Great Pyramid
• Kautilya, Arthashastra, translated by Rudrapatna Shamasastry
• Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
• James Romm, Ghost on the Throne
• Joanne Fletcher, The Search for Nefertiti
• Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars
• The Atlantic, Emily Vermule, The Promise of Thera
• Pyotr Michalowski, The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
• Vasant Shinde et al., Cell Publishing, 2019, An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers
• Wikipedia articles and associated sources

Images

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