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Asclepiades of Bithynia, influenced by Epicurean philosophy, pioneered medical innovations and foreshadowed the principles of ...
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Francis read the newspapers and had breakfast after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where he’s being treated for a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said. (AP video by Trisha ...
Nearly three decades after her death, never-heard-before music from Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald has surfaced. The recording was recently discovered in the private tape collection of the founder of ...
A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...
The story of the exquisite Roman helmet is still shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the high-status man who served in the Roman ...
Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...
Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
Legend has it that the island of Ios, Greece was where Homer took his last breath and that now he lies in his tomb on a hill at Plakoto.