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Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

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The knife handle is a testament to how pervasive the gladiator celebrity culture was in the Roman Empire, reaching all the ...

Scientists from Oxford and Warsaw Universities have found new evidence that shifts the timeline regarding the fall of the ...

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

A new study suggests the Byzantine Empire’s decline wasn’t caused by the Justinian Plague, but may have even experienced a population boom.

How Ancient India Transformed the World' is a laudable account on how Ancient India shaped the world civilisation ...

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient.

Denzel Washington revealed that his same-sex kissing scene was taken out of the final cut of Gladiator II. During a recent ...

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