How many Caesers were there in Rome? The lives of the first 12 were recorded by Tacitus from Julius Caesar and Augustus to Titus and Domitian.
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
For thousands of years, human civilizations have been collecting taxes, in one form or another. From grain to beards to rubber balls, governments always found new ways to collect their due.
Roman legions could deploy and harness resources wherever needed. The city of Rome was effectively the center and genesis of their universe, so the Empire built its roads from that place, outward. If you were somewhere wandering lost in the land, you could be guaranteed a way back “home....
There are many great victories in the history of war, but Cannae had a special impact. This battle infected and poisoned military thinking into the 20th century. Because here the enemy was not only defeated and weakened, but by evening the Roman army no longer existed. Cannae awakened...
Roman domination of London effectively ended in 410, when the legions were withdrawn to tackle some pressing domestic matters (Rome was being sacked). We know very little about London over the next two hundred years. The city inside the Roman walls was at some point abandoned. Germanic tribes...
Edward Berger did a phenomenal job bringing the 1930 epic All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) to legions of audiences and a slew of Oscar nominations. All bets are that he does it again with Conclave. The screenplay is written by Peter Straughan, primarily a British playwright. The action...
As the Jews flocked to Rome in great numbers and were converting many of the natives to their ways,he[Tiberius]banished mostof them. -Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book LVII, 18.5 [written around 220 AD] There was a debate too about expelling the Egyptian andJewish worship, and a resolutio...
They are descendents to the people who fled the Roman legions in Palestine 2000 years ago. “The closest genetic neighbours to most Jewish groups were the Palestinians, Israeli Bedouins, and Druze in addition to the Southern Europeans, including Cypriots,” wrote Harry Ostrer, professor of ...
Persian archers, Gallic swordsmen, Scythian spear-throwers and Iberian cavalry who made up Caesar's legions. In addition to the motley army of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Indian, Pakistani, Greek, Polish and English labourers, there were the designers, geologists, soil-chemists, archaeologists, ...