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Julius Caesar writes detailed commentaries about his campaigns, but keep in mind, he wrote these for public consumption. They provide an amazing window into what Caesar thought the Roman citizens ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, were carbonised by scorching gases that engulfed the town ...

Based on the markings and the angle of the gnomon, which has since been lost but was originally recorded as being shaped like a pig's tail, Gianni Ferrari, an ancient sundial expert, estimated in ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Abrahamse’s proposition is to muddle three time periods: the period when Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar (1599), the time when its action presumably played out in a historically verifiable Rome ...

A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...

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Beyond the excitement of Angelina Jolie being cast to portray Cleopatra, famously known as the "Last Pharaoh of Egypt," anticipation builds around this timeless ...

Ancient Egypt had many impressive pharaohs, but which of them were especially fearsome warriors? Here are just some who ...

The Getty Villa museum will look a little different when it reopens next week. While the ancient relics and art pieces were ...