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A Gladiator’s Marble-Etched Epitaph Is Found in an Ancient Roman NecropolisThe graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.
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What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward ...
What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their aqueducts ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...
The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than ...
VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...
Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...
More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...
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