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From ancient Egyptian shoes to a curtain Picasso designed, London's V&A East Storehouse offers 'close interactions' with ...
Tucked away in the South of France, this quiet town holds a Roman treasure that rivals anything in Italy. Orange was once a ...
The 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears a mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.
A scene from the Iliad Credit: Antonio Raffaele Calliano / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 In an academic paper published in the journal Greece & Rome, historian J. A. Richmond explains how spying was ...
The role of animals in gladiator battles, he says, is well-documented. An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a scene of an execution known in Latin as 'damnatio ad bestias' which translates to ...
The evidence comes from a Roman cemetery in York, known as one of the best-preserved gladiator cemeteries in the Roman world. Located along the Roman road leading out of the ancient city of ...
After reading about the Roman horse cemetery unearthed in Stuttgart, discover the story of venationes, the brutal animal battles staged in ancient Rome ... and she published a book on the Seattle food ...
They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful ... had left the realm in financial straits: Rome’s foothold in Egypt looked sure to extend. In 51 BC, 18-year-old Cleopatra emerged onto the political ...
Some thought a Roman army had used Burnswark as an ancient firing range and training camp, while other researchers regarded the hill fort as the scene of ... the site of the Battle of Little ...
During the short life of this city-state, D’Annunzio established a number of symbols and gestures that he claimed were derived from ancient Rome: the battle ... are several scenes in which ...
Several posted scenes from the 2005-07 TV series Rome ... symbols and gestures that he claimed were derived from ancient Rome: the battle cry, purportedly of Roman origin, “alalà” and ...