Its often been said that history is written by the victors, and if this is indeed true than it applies to the vanquished civilization’s physical remains as well. The records of the past are littered with references to vanished wonders, from the Colossus of Rhodes (broken up and sold for scrap in the 7th century) [...]
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The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization-
"A hugely entertaining and often moving portrait of a civilization to which the modern West owes an immense but neglected debt. Read it, and you will never use the word 'Byzantine' as a term of abuse again."
--Thomas Holland, author of Millennium, Persian Fire and RubiconBuy the Book
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