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The emperor who declared war on the sea—and meant it
There's a moment in ancient history that reads like a fever dream. The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometime around 40 CE, marched his legions to the shores of the English Channel, arranged them in full ...
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472 AD – When Rome was sacked by its own general
Few figures in late Roman history are as controversial as Flavius Ricimer. Accused of betraying Majorian, poisoning emperors, and sacking Rome in 472, he has long been cast as the villain of the ...
In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.
From drunken debauchery to a feast for a saint, there are multiple theories about the history of Valentine’s Day.
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