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PONTE MILVIO, NORTH OF ROME ON THE RIVER TIBER, ITALY 28
On the feast day of St Mary Magdalene in 1342, the heavens opened over Würzburg with unrelenting fury. What had begun as a whisper in the summer air was thundering like a wild beast. The skies, heavy
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
LECHAIO, GREECE JULY 391 BCE
BRANXTON, ENGLAND 9 SEPTEMBER 1513
ARCHAEOLOGY
It’s a measure of the enduring appeal of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 swords-and-sandals epic that, when most of us hear the name Spartacus, a dimple-chinned Kirk Douglas springs immediately to mind. Heroic
