Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by ...
Situated at the mouth of the River Almond, Cramond is one of the Capital’s most desirable places to live. Archaeologists have ...
A new study reveals how the Temple of Venus has stood the test of time - and it suggests the Romans were even more clever ...
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Near the surface lay a palm-sized, gilded bronze Christ with outstretched arms. “That moment was one of the greatest of my life. My pulse went right up,” he said. Dybvik phoned Johnston, the on-call ...
Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...
A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome's leading intellectual during the middle of the first century AD. Brought back from exile, he and his friends would ...