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Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...
Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...
Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust Here’s an interesting (and gross) science fact for you: According to ...
Female gladiators were a rarity in Ancient Rome, but the role they played was fascinating. Read on to find out more.
Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...
The Roman Empire ... lover by visiting the Statue of Antinous in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. The emperor may have been known as a harmonious ruler, but never backed down from his affections.
Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire. Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor ... and drama down to the present ...
In the first centuries BCE and CE, court poets, coins, statues, gifts of grain, and military actions proclaimed that the son of god—the Roman emperor Augustus and ... that residents often resorted to ...
The headless statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was looted from ... scholar Elizabeth Marlowe told Hyperallergic in an email, pointing out that the looters had immediately garnered the ...
One of the planned statues in Quincy, Massachusetts, would depict St. Florian (250-c. 304), a Roman army commander and Christian martyr during the reign of Emperor ... held him down on the ground ...
He then put his right hand over his heart before extending his arm, elbow-straight, at a roughly 45-degree angle, with palm outstretched and facing down ... any statues of Roman emperors or ...
From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings ...