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Nevertheless, these unprepossessing ruins, easily missed as you drive up the Red Sea coast, were the landing point for generations of Indian merchants travelling to the Roman Empire and were once ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The presence of women in Roman military contexts has been established beyond doubt by scholars in recent decades. Nevertheless, very little ...

Egypt at the time was part of the empire, but the Kush felt they were decidedly not. Enraged by the tax, Amanirenas conducted a raid on Roman territory, advancing past the First Cataract of the ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...

the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, according to a new study Sonja Anderson The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress.

And while he has disclosed some of his training for the role, how did the Gladiators of the Roman Empire actually train? Men's Health have trawled through the history books to take a closer look ...

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

one of the most intricate and still-intact sanctuaries of the Roman Empire. Other iconic features are the Temple of Venus and the Baalbek Stones, which include the largest monoliths in the world.

There is a hint of desperation about Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s long-gestating follow-up to his 2000 sword-and-sandals classic. Everything is bigger, longer, and more numerous. There is not just a ...

In the 350s, Constantius II built a number of fortresses, including Cepha, in strategically important places along the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire to protect the local population from ...

Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way to understand what life was like during the Roman Empire. Located ...