Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great was an Akkadian king who conquered the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE. Born in secret to a high priestess who placed the baby in a basket of rushes into the river Euphrates, Sargon was found and raised by a simple man, then [...]

 

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Welcome to the first episode of The Biography Show on TPN!
You hosts are historian and author J. David Markham and Cameron Reilly. Read more about us here.
This first episode is about Alexander III of Macedon, better known to most of us as Alexander “The Great” and great he certainly was. He was a [...]

 

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