Most Roman emperors died on the job. So when the emperor Diocletian decided to abdicate and retire in March 305 CE, it was a ...
When you think about shipwrecks, do you think about the battle that took place, or the heaps of wood lying at the bottom of the sea? When most people think about shipwrecks, the first image is usually ...
Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...
5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...