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The teenage Roman emperor who scandalized an empire and died at 18
Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than ...
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You'd never know these modern towns once helmed great empires
The Vikings weren’t a unified people, and Scandinavia was peppered with small, warring states ruled by kings, jarls, and ...
The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...
The first thing to say about Civilisations: Rise and Fall (BBC Two) is that it has nothing to do with Sir Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, despite the BBC telling us otherwise. In ...
Set in 409, as the Roman Empire crumbles, Mark J.F. Hudson’s Beyond the Black Gate (Conrad Press, £10.99; Tablet price £9.89) follows Nehtan, a young Christian woman rescued in northern Gaul by Fromus ...
A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor ...
Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...
The Israeli version of Saturday Night Live has portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump as a conquering Roman emperor in a wild musical number posted to social media. The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg ...
The word vandal today may be defined as a person who deliberately destroys or damages property. Historically speaking, a Vandal was “a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the ...
Theodosius I (also known as Theodosius the Great) lived during the 4th century AD. He was the last Roman emperor to rule over both the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire. It was during the ...
Being a Roman emperor was a risky job. It wasn't unusual for emperors to be killed by usurpers wanting to remove them from power. They also faced many health challenges, such as death from epidemics ...
Caligula, the ancient Roman emperor infamous for his insanity and cruelty, may have had a soft spot for plants, according to recently published research. A new study co-authored by Trevor Luke, a ...
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