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Relief of Soldiers of the Praetorian Guard. (Credit: Jamie Heath, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

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The Battle of the Granicus scene. Image credit: Charles Le Brun via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

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Detailed stone relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman soldiers marching with standards and boarding boats during a military campaign. Image credit: History Skills / Shutterstock.com.

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A nineteenth-century engraving of the murder of Pompey the Great on the Egyptian coast. (Credit: KtmT / Shutterstock)

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Depiction of Marius as victor over the invading Cimbri. By Francesco Saverio Altamura, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mario_vincitore_dei_Cimbri.jpg

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Defeat at the Battle of Canae led the Romans to rethink their tactics. (Bernardino Cesari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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A gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. Image credit: Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pollice Verso, 1872, Phoenix Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

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The Siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.

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A classical battle scene depicting the Roman army during the Punic Wars.

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Vercingetorix surrenders to Julius Caesar following the Battle of Alesia in 52 BCE, as imagined by Lionel Royer in 1899. Image credit Lionel Royer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Scene from the Battle of Gaugamela. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

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Detailed stone relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman soldiers during a military campaign. Image credit: History Skills / Shutterstock.com.

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Rome, two left relief panels of the south attic of the triumphal Arch of Constantine, depicting an enemy chieftain before the emperor, and a scene with other prisoners. Image credit MonikaKL via Shutterstock

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September 10, 2026 21:00

Relief of a battle scene between the Roman legion and Barbarians from Rome. Image credit: Cris Foto / Shutterstock.com

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Colossi of Memnon in Luxor, Valley of Kings, Egypt. These two massive stone statues are of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Amenhotep III.

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Depiction of Gaius Marius as victor over the invading Cimbri.

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Trajan’s Column depicting ancient Roman army.

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