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Michael Wood on Gaza’s astonishing cultural heritage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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North, south, east and west: how ancient civilisations found their bearings before the compass . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the Bangladesh Liberation War “From Africa to the Indian subcontinent, imperialism has left a trail of damage” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wanderlust: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: the history of a city of many names . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The big questions of the crusades

Men from Bethlehem in Jerusalem in 1894, when the territory identified as Palestine was part of the Ottoman empire. At the start of the 19th century Palestine's population was mostly Arab, with a small Jewish minority, but from the 1880s waves of settlers rapidly augmented the Jewish population (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Israel and the Palestinians: a history of conflict in 8 key episodes

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The head and upper body of a monumental statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which has been exhibited at the British Museum, London, since the 19th century (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Was Ramesses II the greatest pharaoh of ancient Egypt? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The crusader states What was life like?

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A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Genghis Khan’s tent, as shown in a 14th-century Persian miniature. The Mongols’ conquests transformed the way the people of Eurasia did trade, shared knowledge, paid taxes and fought wars (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

What was life like under the Mongol empire?

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The face of Cleopatra: what did she look like, and was she really so beautiful?

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Illustration of King Richard I, on horseback, in the Holy Land, by Henry Justice Ford (Photo by The History Emporium / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if... Richard the Lionheart had recaptured Jerusalem? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thousands of Muslims gather in India in 2019 to offer Eid prayers, marking end of holy month of Ramadan

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