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His reign marks the end of the golden period of peace in the history of the Roman Empire known as the Pax Romana...

Happy Birthday Commodus, you bastard!

DOB 31/08/161 AD 🎂


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Old drawing
It's a personification of Caesar's horse

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Rediscovering female merchants - As queens or captains, women deftly operated ships across the Red Sea and Mediterranean 2,000 years ago.
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OUT NOW! The Charioteer, a swords and sandals romp based on a true story by Procopius of how the Romans stole silk from China. https://t.co/g3P9LZHRTM

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Coins reveal details about the ruler, period and society in which they were minted. Here we look at Alexander the Great's Silver Tetradrachm.

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Pompeii brought back to life: The Grand Palais show exploring a city left deserted by a natural disaster has strong new resonance for today https://t.co/uhnbu9qICg

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Try role playing as Ebutius on this digital resource from our colleagues at the Hunterian Museum : https://t.co/QqZKllpjOV

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Beware the . Yep, today's the day Julius Caesar firmly regretted popping by the Theatre of Pompey to see how things were going. Assassinated on this day 44BC.

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