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Inside the arena that brought sea onto land to host staged naval battl
Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
Rich, resourceful and ruthless, the Venetians left handsome imprints across the Greek world, says Matthew Dennison , as he explores the lingering traces of a vanished empire
● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...
The seaside lido offered safe swimming for holidaymakers irrespective of the vagaries of the tide. Kathryn Ferry looks at the architecture of these remarkable creations
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
