A gold coin depicting Marcus Junius Brutus—the Roman senator who assassinated Julius Caesar, fatally stabbing him 23 times ...

Ancient Greek plant Silphium ... even before the rise of Athens and the Roman Empire. It is believed that the plant with yellow flowers attached to a thick stalk was crushed, roasted, sauteed, and ...

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But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome ... attitudes toward Roman entertainment was “probably more complex.” Julius Caesar gave Jewish ...

Jews had lived in Rome since the second century BC. Julius Caesar and Augustus supported ... animals and convert foreign currency into temple coins. Rebellion in Judaea Although Judaea was ruled ...

Archaeological work at Barham Quarry has unearthed a beautiful coin. The coin in question is a silver denarius of the later ...

Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s ...

The front of this coin portrays the Emperor Tiberius facing right and wearing a crown of laurels. He is encircled by the inscription TICAESARDIVI AUGFAUGUSTUS and a partial border of dots. On the back ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...

One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known ...