Paul Cooper, creator of the hit podcast Fall of Civilizations has just received a lovely shout-out in The Economic Times for the podcast’s episodes on the Aztecs:

“Vividly researched and powerfully told, this episode is not just a history lesson but also a meditation on human ambition, resilience, fragility and hubris.”

Read the full review here. Listen to the episodes on the Aztecs here and here.

Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline is out now. Grab your US copy here and your UK hardback copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org. Pre-order your paperback copy here.

You can find out more about Paul here and subscribe to his podcast here.

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