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20 Interesting Facts About Ancient Rome

1. The emperor/empress, as well as with senators, wore clothing dyed in purple, made from murex seashells. It was a status symbol for the...

Silk Road – Connection between the East and West

The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times into the Middle Ages. It was used...

The Second Punic War – The Hannibal War

The Second Punic war between Carthage and the Roman Republic, 218 BC - 202 BC, was the second of three Punic wars. After First...

The Greatest Battles of the Roman-Persian Wars (Part 1)

Perhaps the longest running rivalry in human history is between the Persians & Romans, and this article aims to give an insight into some...

Julius Caesar – A Saviour or a Tyrant?

Guy Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a great statesman who changed history and left a great legacy....

Emperor Nero and the Burning of Rome

Nero, full name Nero Claudius Caesar August Germanic, 37-68BC, was a Roman Emperor, the successor of Claudius. His mother Agrippina the Younger married Emperor...

History of the Spear

Introduction: The spear, alongside the axe, knife, club and bow has been used by humans all around the globe, since before history. Our ancestors used...

The Administrative Rule of Emperor Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus) was Roman Emperor  117-138. Hadrian was the son of the Roman Senator Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, who moved to...

Shichi-fuku-jin – Japanese Seven Lucky Gods

Shichi-fuku-jin, or the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan, are a group of deities whose origins stem from India, Chinese and indigenous Japanese gods of...

The Ancient Religion of the Celts – Celtic Polytheism

The early Celts lived in an enormous region, stretching from modern day Turkey through eastern and central Europe and westward and northward into much...

Roman Emperor Constans (337–350)

Flavius Julius Constans was a Roman Emperor, Caesar from 333 to 337, and August from 337 to 350. Constans was the youngest son of...

Roman Emperor Constantius II (350 – 361 A.D.)

Constantius II was Roman Emperor from 337 to 361. After the death of his father in 337, he gained rule of most of the...

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20 Interesting Facts About Ancient Rome

1. The emperor/empress, as well as with senators, wore clothing dyed in purple, made from murex seashells. It was a status symbol for the...

Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) – Crimean War

The Siege of Sevastopol 1854-1855 was a siege of the Russian Port of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. Sevastopol did not have a prepared...

Silk Road – Connection between the East and West

The Great Silk Road was a caravan road connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean from Ancient times into the Middle Ages. It was used...

Serbian Campaign of World War I

The Serbian campaign was an important front in the First World War, which lasted from July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, until the...

The Second French Empire (1852-1870)

The second French empire lasted from 1852 to 1870. On December 2, 1852, as a result of a plebiscite, a constitutional monarchy was established,...