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The so-called sea peoples, a generic term, long seemed little more then a footnote in Ancient history, which is written, so by peoples with alphabets, and in the many states they attacked or invaded, but closer research, looking behind the rather triumphalist official propaganda of Egypt's mighty Pharaohs, gradually reveals their military might was literally a force to be reckoned with, even by the greatest empire of its day, which under Ramses III could apparently only 'manage' their massive attack by settling them in outer province Kanaan (roughly Palestine, named ...

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The mythical epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest long-term 'bestseller', c. 1200 BC written in cuneiform in Uruk, capital of Sumer (fertile southern Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, terribly plundered since the allied invasion) is named after a possibly real but romanticized king of Uruk, builder of the Inana Ishtar temple but a sadistic tyrant, whose misrule was challenged in vain -to a draw- by a mythical creature in unison with nature, who ended up befriending him, next Gilgamesh' terrible fever after scorning the same goddess, which flirt with death incites him to leave his...

For centuries in the age of feudal crusades, Christianity had an exotic hope: the mythical empire of a king-priest Johannes beyond the Islamic world, an ideal ally of extreme wealth, even with a fountain of youth, allegedly his ancestor would be converted by the apostle Thomas who evangelized India. 12th century pope Alexander III received a letter signed by such a king John, just when he needed a boost as his papal throne was contested by emperor Frederic Barbarossa and Jerusalem threatened by Islam. The realm has been supposed to be in India, perhaps Madras, which ...

It took diplomatic negotiations to get the Scythian warrior a German-Russian team found in Mongolia's Altai permafrost in 2006 to Germany for a year of hi-tech research in Göttingen university. Combined with earlier finds and new research, the present knowledge about the Scyths and the steppe nomads who kept invading as far as Europe like them until Genghis Khan's empire is updated.

In 1402 prince Ju-di, fourth son of the Ming dynasty founder, seizes the Dragon throne from his eldest brother after three years of bloody civil war. The usurper starts a reign of terror as Yungle. He shifts the capital north from Nanjing to Beiping (Peking, Bejing), near the Mongolian border. He has 600,000 laborers build the huge, lavish Forbidden City palace complex under Vietnamese POW, eunuch and architect Ruhan-An, as pre-fab, in 14 years. Its concentric rectangles design symbolically reflects a meticulous vision on the emperor as center of the empire of the ...

For 500 years, the Ming-built Forbidden City, the feng-shui reflection of a cosmology around the emperor, was the ritual center of universal harmony. But the empire itself would crumble after the accession to power of a peasant girl, slowly risen from lowly concubine to bedmate and confident of a sickly weakling emperor, later de facto regent Chi-Chi behind the throne of her son, then the empress-widow's. Her stupid xenophobic policy, blind even for Western military superiority, led to two allied occupations of Peking.

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Charles Darwin, son of a wealthy English family or Trinitarian protestants, initially planning a life of leisure or entering the religious ministry, chose instead to pursue his fascination for nature. His social standing enabled him to board the HMS Beagle on a cartographic world tour. He barely suffered witnessing the harsh flogging regime of his hard-line Tory host, captain Fitzroy, but stumbled upon evidence for his theory of evolution. Despite initial scientific acclaim, realizing the theological implication Genesis isn't literally true made him wait 20 years, ...