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From the award-winning author of Kings of Stone — Outstanding Creator Award, Best Nonfiction 2025

Egypt’s pharaohs wrote them letters. The Hittites fought them to a standstill for generations. The Assyrians spent centuries as their subjects, waiting for the chance at independence. Mitanni’s daughters married into the most powerful royal families...

Drawing on decades of archaeological and philological discoveries, Archaeologist R Jay Driskill, presents a comprehensive history of the Hittite Empire. Once a forgotten civilization, the Hittites emerged from obscurity to stand as a formidable power in the ancient Near East, rivaling Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria.

In “Kings of Stone: The Hittite...

The Most Wounded Warrior in British Military History

Shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. Survived two plane crashes. Tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp. Lost an eye and a hand, then pulled off his own mangled fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. His response to it all? “Frankly, I enjoyed the war.”

A True...

Discover the Extraordinary True Story of America’s First Free Black Community

In 1738, decades before the American Revolution, a former slave named Francisco Menéndez achieved something historians once thought impossible: he founded and commanded North America’s first legally sanctioned free Black settlement. Through groundbreaking archaeological...

Unraveling History’s Greatest Maritime Mystery

Who were the mysterious Sea Peoples who brought down the Bronze Age world? For over a century, archaeologists and historians have debated the identity of these enigmatic raiders who appeared from the Mediterranean around 1200 BCE, toppling empires and reshaping civilization itself.

In this...

Uncover the Lost Kingdom That Nearly Conquered the Ancient World

Deep in the mountains of western Turkey lie the ruins of a civilization that time forgot—until now. In Ghosts of Arzawa, archaeologist R. Jay Driskill resurrects one of the Bronze Age’s most fascinating and overlooked kingdoms, revealing a sophisticated empire that dared to...

From the ashes of legend rises archaeological truth—the definitive story of humanity’s most famous lost city.

For three millennia, Troy has existed in two worlds: Homer’s epic battlefield where heroes clashed with gods, and the windswept hill of Hisarlık in Turkey where archaeologists uncover Bronze Age reality. In this captivating volume of the...