Şehri Konstantin
City of Constantine
Mapping the remnants of Byzantine Constantinople
From Broken Bits of Byzantium (1872) by C. G. Curtis
From Broken Bits of Byzantium (1872) by C. G. Curtis
How Arab raiders overran the wealthiest parts of the Roman Empire and the entire Sasanian Empire in a few years. Holland's overly-dramatic prose can get repetitive, but the subject matter is too enthralling to put down.
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Sword-Birth-Global-Empire/dp/0307473651