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New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.
What did race and identity mean to the Romans? In this episode of Kings and Generals, we examine ancient views on ethnicity, ...
What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...
With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...
Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...