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Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...
Once chaotic and essential, Rome’s Suburra lay just below the Forum. Home to artisans, taverns, and intrigue, it shaped the ...
Caesar Trump is more like Nero than Augustus – fiddling while his country burns. For the UK and sterling, the economic risks are clear ...
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed what may be an ancient villa they believe belonged to the first Roman ...
From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...
The Roman historian Gaius Suetonius, in The Lives of the 12 Caesars, tells us that Caesar Augustus deplored rashness in a ...
A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 million this week. Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led ...
The latest version of the Roman Empire dawned at Fenway Park in Boston on Monday. Roman Anthony — son of Anthony Anthony and brother of Anthony Anthony Jr. — botched his Red Sox debut by whiffing on a ...
Beyond the excitement of Angelina Jolie being cast to portray Cleopatra, famously known as the "Last Pharaoh of Egypt," anticipation builds around this timeless ...
Shall beset our cities. According to this paean, Augustus initiated a time of agricultural abundance, societal security, and political dominion and peace: a golden age. Such sentiments are echoed by ...
Rome had its most powerful centuries ahead of it, while America is in decline. Octavian: the man who became Augustus Caesar didn’t manage the transition from Republic to autocracy.
When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god. This seems an honor that even the most sycophantic U.S. senators would be unlikely to suggest for our president.
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