On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
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What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in ... a 1914 silent film set in ancient Rome at the time of the Second Punic War (against Carthage which lasted ...
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Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
Supporters of Elon Musk claimed his "Nazi salute" was actually a "Roman salute," but historians said there was never such a thing.
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Why The Sacred Chickens Decided Ancient Rome's Most Important Matters
The Romans are famous for their many contributions to modern society, but did you know that major decisions were made by ...
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Obasa: Lagos na wa!, By Festus Adedayo
Lagos State and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa, appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Insatiably curious about ...
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1st Century BCE Medusa Mask Mold Reveals Insights into Roman Sicily’s Cultural and Economic Practices
Archaeologists in Finziade, Sicily, have uncovered a 1st century BCE mold used to create masks of Medusa, shedding light on ...
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Total War Rome: The Board Game review - a slightly baffling triumph
That’s how I charged a legionary army into the mountains of northern Spain and lost the most celebrated Roman general of the Second Punic War to a grossly outnumbered ... representing the broad ...
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Nine quick facts about the history of timekeeping
4,000 years ago, Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians introduced ... of course someone stole your sundial! During the Punic Wars, the Romans took a sundial from the island colony of Catania in ...
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Mallorca and Ibiza losing out to Menorca
The end of the Punic wars saw an increase in piracy in the ... became part of the Tarraconensis imperial province. The ancient town of Mago was transformed from a Carthaginian town to a Roman town. To ...