This is the last of a four-part series on Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one, part two, and part three. The long struggle between Greek and Persian ended with an astonishing victory ...

Archaeologists have just uncovered an ancient city that the Roman army so thoroughly besieged that it was left uninhabited for nearly 200 years. Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology ...

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Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44BC and a bloody civil war followed. This brought down the Roman republic and replaced it with a monarchy led by Caesar’s nephew ...