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Letter from Genghis Khan Asking for the Secret of Eternal Life // (1219) Invitation to Taoist Monk

Roman Citizen Describes Ancient Ireland and Thule // Edge of Known World // 7 BC Strabo Geographica

The End of the World // Ragnarok as told by Snorri Sturluson // 13th century Norse Source

Ivar and Björn Avenge Ragnar's Death // 12th Century Extracts from Saxo Grammaticus and Krákumál

Roman Historian Describes Ancient Scandinavia // Before The Vikings // Tacitus 97 AD

The Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok // Icelandic Saga // 13th Century

Eye-Witness Account of The Viking Rus' // Ibn Fadlan 921 AD // Primary Source

Christopher Columbus' First Letter After Discovery of America // 1493 Primary Source

Roman Historian on The Founding of Rome // Livy on Romulus and Remus // 1st century BC Roman Source

17th Century Ninja Explains How To Be A Ninja // The Bansensh?kai // Japanese Primary Source

Plato Describes Atlantis // First Mention of the Island // 360 BC 'Critias'

Chinese Historian Describes the Byzantine Empire // 7-10th century "Book of Tang" // Primary Source

Justinian: The Headless Emperor // Procopius' Secret History // 6th century AD Primary Source

Words of Hanno The Navigator - Ancient Explorer // 5th century BC // Primary Source

Roman Scholar Describes Ancient China // 1st century AD // Pliny the Elder on the "Seres"

Captain Cook lands in New Zealand // 1769 Journal Entry // Primary Source

Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Roman Empire // 3rd century AD "Weilüe" // Primary Source

Do the Dog-Headed Men Have Souls? // Letter from 9th Century Monk // Primary Source

The Fall of Jericho // Old Testament Extract

Spartan Training // Xenophon 380 BC // Ancient Primary Source

The Battles of King Arthur // Nennius (C. 830)

The Death of Caesar (March 15th 44 BC) // Nicolaus of Damascus // Ancient Source

Dead Sea Scrolls - The War Scroll (Abridged)

The Behistun Inscription // Darius The Great (550 - 486 BC) // Persian Primary Source

Herodotus on The Pyramids // The Histories 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source

The Orkhon Inscriptions // Göktürk Primary Source // Bilgä Qaghan (683 - 734)

Joan of Arc's Sentence // May 1431 // Primary Source

First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source

Cortés Meets Montezuma // Cortés' letters // 8th November 1519

Dinner with Atilla the Hun // Priscus 448 CE // Primary Source #projectpannonia

Assyrian God-King Speaks of his Conquests // Ancient Primary Source // 640 BC Sennacherib

Caesar on the Druids // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)

A Letter from Iwo Jima // Major Charles Williamson // World War II Primary Source

Charlemagne's Saxon Wars // Einhard's Life of Charles the Great

Findan & The Vikings // The Life of St. Findan

Liutprand of Cremona meets Nikephoros II Phokas // 968 // Byzantine History

Trial Notes of a Slave from Judah // 549 BC // Ancient Babylonian Tablet

Leif Erikson discovers America // 999 AD // The Saga of Erik the Red

Herodotus on the Edge of the World // 440 BC // Ancient Greek Primary Source

Baghdad under the Abbasids // Yaqut 1000 AD // Arabic Primary Source

The Tsunami of 365 // Ammianus Marcellinus // Roman Primary Source

The Story of Spartacus (73 - 71 BC) // As told by Appian // Roman Source

Adam of Bremen on Jutland // German Primary Source (1076)

The Magna Carta (1215)

Letter from Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV // 1246 Mongol Primary Source

William the Conqueror's Speech at Hastings (1066) // Be Ye The Avengers of Noble Blood

Caesar & the Pirates // Plutarch 75 AD // Roman Source

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Massacre at Ayyadieh (1191) // Richard Lionheart and Saladin // As told by Baha-ad-din

The Death of Nero // Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars 121 AD // Roman Primary Source

Earliest Roman reference to Jesus & Christianity (116 AD) // Tacitus' Annals // Roman Primary Source

Contemporary Leaflet About The Glencoe Massacre (1692) // Real Red Wedding (GOT) // Primary Source

Conversation between Hannibal and Scipio before The Battle of Zama (202 BC) // As told by Livy

Xenophon & The Ruins of Assyria // Ancient Greek Primary Source

The Justinian Plague: First Pandemic? // Procopius (541-542) // Byzantine Primary Source

World's Oldest Complaint Letter (Ancient Sumeria) // 2nd Millennium BC // Ancient Primary Source

Calgacus' Speech of Freedom // The Agricola by Tacitus (98AD) // Roman Primary Source

The Settlement of Iceland // Book of the Icelanders (1122-1133) // Primary Source

Caesar on the Germans // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)

Charlemagne's Wars- Aquitaine & Lombardy // Einhard's Life of Charles the Great

Caesar on Britain // Roman Primary Source (58-49 BC)

Alexander the Great's Letter to Darius, King of Persia // Ancient Greek Primary Source

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (872-877) / Primary Source

The Martyrdom of King Edmund // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (990-1020)

King Cnut's Letter to the English People // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source (1019)

Ibn Hayy?n - The Viking Attack on Seville (844) Arabic Primary Source

Annals of St. Bertin (854-860) // Frankish Primary Source

Sermon of the Wolf to the English (1010-1016) // Anglo-Saxon Primary Source