According to the first-century A.D. Roman writer Pliny the Elder, the ancient city of Lixus in what is now northern Morocco was the site of the Garden of the Hesperides, where the semidivine hero ...

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When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

Powerful empires throughout history have risen by mastering warfare, governance, trade, and culture, leaving legacies that ...

Researchers created a digital dataset to map roads that would throughout the Roman Empire around 150 C.E. By piecing together historical records, topographic maps, and satellite imagery, the research ...

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In a rare statement, the bishops framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms. “We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said.

Prior to a full-scale Roman invasion of Britain, the relationship between the two was strained and marginal. There is no doubt that the tribes of Britannia knew about the Romans and their advanced ...

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Roman Emperor Caracalla. Credit: Wolfgang Moroder / CC BY-SA 3.0 Authorities in Turkey have halted the demolition of an abandoned farmhouse in the southwestern province of Burdur after experts ...