History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

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The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander ... Everyone from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar (pictured ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

"I even read Julius Caesar was very impressed by the German tribes," he said, urging the supporters to "fight, fight, fight" for their country's future. He said the AfD wanted "more self ...