If I could bring one figure from the ancient world back from the dead it would be Aristophanes. I would hold an all-night drinking party, in imitation of the famous carousal of 416 BC described in ...
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Once upon a time there were some simple answers to that simple question. Julius Caesar spent much of the 50s BC making war in what is now France in an effort to acquire the money, fame and loyal ...
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Lying on the west bank of the River Usk, just north of the city of Newport in South Wales, the town of Caerleon lies over some of the most remarkable and evocative remains from the Roman period in ...
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Essex is not a place that one would immediately associate with the archaeology of the ancient world. Its proximity to London and its Victorian seaside resorts have dramatically altered the features ...
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