Pompey meets a violent end

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

On 20 March 44 BC, a violent death in Rome was about to send assembled masses into uproar – sparking pandemonium that threatened to engulf the city. The incident described by the ancient biographer Su

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Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?

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“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...