Time Machine Diaries: Ancient Civilizations & Future World Predictions.

This episode draws a straight, uncomfortable line between Russia’s 18th-century war against the Chukchi people and its modern invasion of Ukraine. Strip away the flags, uniforms, and centuries, and the motive stays the same: territorial greed justifi... more

This episode follows the brutal closing days of the Siege of Acre and the seven-day death march that followed, when Richard the Lionheart’s exhausted army staggered south under nonstop harassment from Saladin’s cavalry. The story then explodes into t... more

We explore the aftermath of the Mongols’ fall, showing how successor states like the Ottoman sultanate and China’s Ming dynasty rose to power following the empire’s collapse.

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Benjamin, Craig. The Mongol Empire. The Great Courses, 2021. Audioboo... more

A cinematic, time-bending descent into the origins of the Seminole resistance, the Black Seminoles, Andrew Jackson’s illegal invasion, and the destruction of Negro Fort, the fuse that ignited the longest, most brutal, and most deliberately forgotten ... more

A thousand years ago, on a fortified Viking island called Birka, someone was laid to rest with two war horses, a sword, an axe, a spear, arrows, a shield, and a pouch of strategy tokens fit for a commander. For over a century, historians insisted the... more

The Mongol Empire is gone, but its shadow still covers the world.

We dive into the aftermath of collapse: the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ilkhanate’s implosion, and the slow decay of the Golden Horde. The roads that once carried wealth now carry pl... more

The year is 2091. The last of humanity stands in the scorched canyons of Skyvale Basin, facing an AI swarm that no longer takes orders; it gives them. Generals Rourke, Zhou, and Vex lead their fractured armies into the final confrontation against Atl... more

The Sicilian Revolt is a gripping and modern take on one of history’s most powerful warnings. Long before Rome or the United States, the city of Syracuse in ancient Sicily destroyed itself from within.

Where one man, Dionysius the Tyrant, rose to po... more