Belisarius was a renowned military commander with impressive battlefield achievements. Hampered by limited resources in both ...

It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

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 ...

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Putin’s Post-War Empire Explained: As the prospect of a permanent ceasefire looms over the battlefield, the geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe and the emerging "new map" of Ukraine under ...

From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian ...

Chestnut Grove in Ticino, Switzerland. Credit: Oliylkaeng / CC BY-SA 4.0 Deep in the forests of southern Switzerland, sweet chestnut trees stand as living evidence of the Roman Empire’s long-reaching ...

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet chestnut ... Researchers in Australia put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing ...

When thinking of the Roman Empire, one typically imagines marble, brick, and concrete—the materials which have allowed so many of its monuments to survive until our day. The pipe is just another ...

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