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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world. In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about.

Immerse yourself in this comprehensive survey of ancient Greece from 750 to 323 B.C.-from the emergence of Greece at the end of the Dark Ages to the final disintegration of Greek autonomy through the Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great.

Babylon, 553 BCE. An ageing priest climbs the ziggurat at dawn and counts the steps, as he has done for forty years. Today, there are more steps than yesterday. Beneath Etemenanki, the great ziggurat that towers over the most magnificent city on earth, something ancient stirs. Something older than Marduk. Older than the names we use for darkness. Something that was sealed beneath the foundations long before the first brick was laid, and has been waiting ever since.