What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...

How a 1,720-year-old Roman boundary stone unearthed in Galilee reveals new insights into ancient land ownership, taxation, and rural life under Roman rule.

Scholars from across the empire flocked to the House of Wisdom, a state-sponsored library in Baghdad. Scribes translated ancient Roman ... map). At its height at the end of the 19th century ...

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins from the late fourth century ... Western Roman Empire but was ...

The salute was used as a symbol in the Neoclassical art movement to display Roman virtues such as honor, patriotism and civic duty. In the 20th century, it was put to use by fascists in Italy and ...

Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online ... and some priests," Martin writes. In the 20th century, the salute became the most familiar symbol ...

Scholars from across the empire flocked to the House of Wisdom, a state-sponsored library in Baghdad. Scribes translated ancient Roman, Greek and ... (as shown in this 1775 map). At its height at the ...