No matter how many novels and films have dealt with his figure, some in a fantastic tone, others more realistic,…
Roman Empire
Hippika gymnasia, the Roman cavalry tournaments
We are used, thanks to literature and cinema, to the image of medieval horsemen engaged in chivalry tournaments. Although this…
When Emperor Hadrian destroyed the world’s longest bridge
On 103 A.D. emperor Trajan ordered to build a bridge over Danube river to be used for the crossing and…
Lapis Niger, the shrine where the first known Latin inscription was found, was already a mystery to the Romans themselves
In 1898 the Venetian archaeologist Giacomo Boni was appointed director of the excavations of the Roman Forum at the Italian…
The 5 Great Last Battles of the Western Roman Empire
Historically, the year 476 A.D. is considered to be the end of the Western Roman Empire, its last emperor being…
How the ancient Greeks invented a telegraphic system for transmitting messages
The history of cryptography is almost as old as that of human language. It is known that the ancient Egyptians,…
