Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.

The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, philosopher and astronomer born in Egypt, then part of the Byzantine empire. She’s credited with inventing ... The Silk Road, a network of trade routes from Cairo ...

The discovery reinforces the theory that Hadrianopolis was not only a cultural center but also a strategic military enclave of the Roman Empire. Hadrianopolis. During the Roman period, the ancient ...

By blending Roman legal principles, Byzantine ... Empire in 476 left northern Italy contested, with instability driving more settlers to the lagoon. During the 5th and 6th centuries, trade ...

The Venetians were great seamen, who traded across the Mediterranean. Credit: Canaletto – istitutosuperioredadda.it, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Byzantines and the Venetians were the ...

It was used as a church in the Byzantine period ... After the Roman conquest and the shifting of trade routes, the city declined in importance until it was abandoned. Europeans did not set ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic is ruthlessly exploited by the tourism industry. It is a theme eloquently ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

There are still so many Leaders that should be in Civ 7. Here are our suggestions for the Top 5 New Leaders to be added to ...