Claire Holleran/The Conversation Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II features a scene in which a senator, seated at a pavement cafe in…
Appearing in 1482, the Libro de la ventura – or Book of Fortune – became a staple of Renaissance parties.…
A sustained campaign of attacks blazed across the Welsh counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire from 1839. Tenant-farmers and labourers,…
A pair of scientists who study hominin fossils and human evolution in China and East Asia claim to have discovered…
When the mad Roman Emperor Caligula was assassinated in 41 AD, his uncle Claudius ran to one of the palace's…
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A circle of corroded bronze, measuring 12 inches (30cm) across, adorned with golden shapes, was unwittingly discovered in 1999 in…
Ancient Romans reportedly ingested the brains of a bream called the dreamfish to get high, and modern scholarly studies have…
Scattered over 700,000 square kilometers (270, 271 sq mi) in the southern Pacific Ocean are the Tonga islands. On one…
On 27 November 1776 a case came before Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, in which,…