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An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...
President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy have regularly sniped, but they are meeting in ...
In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...
You never know where life is going to lead you. Several months ago, we were contacted by friends David and Kelley DiSalvo of Tallahassee who are members of an international organization named ...
This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.
Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.
Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire starts with the observation that “in a period of 60 years, the Roman imperial power ...
Reports say an incident occurred in Rafah in the early hours of Sunday as people were queueing for aid. The response is seen as neither an explicit rejection nor clear acceptance of the proposal ...
The Iron Claw Archimedes is particularly famous for designing war machines for his home state of Syracuse during the Punic Wars. One famous device was the Iron Claw, also known as the Claw of ...
Possibly what reviled the people of Rome most in Caligula’s reign were the mandatory orgies at the imperial palace. The steep entrance fee was then used to finance the emperor’s extravagances and wars ...