History
Faces of the Atlas
5 lives, told start to finish, with the artefacts they left behind.
Hannibal Barca
247 – c. 183 BC
The man who taught Rome fear
Alexander the Great
356–323 BC
He ran out of world before he ran out of ambition
Attila
AD c. 406–453
The scourge the walls held back
Xuanzang
AD c. 602–664
The monk who broke an empire's law to bring the truth home
Zhang Qian
c. 164 – c. 113 BC
Thirteen years to deliver one message