In the year 218, a 14-year-old Syrian priest of the Arab sun god Elagabal became emperor of Rome, going on to have a colourful and controversial reign until his assassination four years later. Five centuries later, the ruling elite of the Khazar Khaganate, a Turkic confederacy straddling Asia and Europe, converted to Judaism. The past is another country, where one could encounter cultural interactions and........

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