Continental Chronicles

South & Southeast Asia: The Ganges, the Isles, and the Golden Peninsula

From the Maurya empire on the Ganges plain to the monsoon-swept island realms and the temple kingdoms of the Golden Peninsula.

Where the old order fell, something still moves in the embers.

The continent's name is also the name of its ruin.

From the clay tablets of two rivers to the sails of Carthage, desert, river, and coast together lit humanity's oldest fires of civilization.

Steel, cross, and throne — all born from the embers of Rome.

Beneath walls built square and true, dynasties rise and fall without end.