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Sitting in Tom Holland’s study, I am puzzled. Looking around, I can see a suit of chain mail (a present from his brother and fellow popular historian James Holland), a mounted psittacosaurus fossil ...

Richard Johnson was undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest actors from the 1950s until his death in 2015 at a good old age of 87, his ashes ...

A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

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