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While the Julio-Claudians established imperial Rome, it was the Flavians who saved Rome from a failing monarchy and laid the foundations for the Golden Age.
From Roman grid cities to lost desert fortresses, these ancient cities offer a rare chance to explore history where it actually happened.
Theodoric's Ostrogothic Kingdom rose from Rome's ashes. How did one man's violent ambition lead to an era of surprising peace and cooperation?
Antiochus the Great planned to halt Rome's rise. But a fatal flaw in his innovative strategy at the Battle of Magnesia led to a shocking defeat.
Long before the rise of Egypt, a sophisticated Neolithic society built structured cities and mastered metallurgy in the Balkans. Meet the Vinca.
The moment Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his troops in 49 BC, the Roman Republic was dead. But the Republic was already on the road to self-destruction.
Tragic fate was often delivered in the form of transformation in the many Greek fables recorded by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses.
Venus Cloacina was an ancient Roman goddess who protected the Cloaca Maxima, Rome’s oldest and most sacred sewer.
