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The Catapult (1868). Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Credit: Edward Poynter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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The Great Temple of Ramses II and the Small Temple of Nefertari in the villlage of Abu Simbel in Nubia, Egypt.

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Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos seizing power and his lynching by a mob. Credit: Rohan Master, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot by Jean-Simon Berthélemy (1767). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Last Senate of Julius Caesar (Raffaele Giannetti, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Depiction of the Roman Army.

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Hadrian's Wall, built in Roman Britain, in what is now Northern England. Image credit Johnnie Shannon, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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Darius flees the battlesite of Gaugamela. Image credit: Luis García via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Naqa is a ruined ancient city of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroe in modern-day Sudan. Via Shutterstock / evenfh

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Bone diptych with a portrait of Stilicho. Credit: O.Mustafin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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The Death of Paulus Aemilius at the Battle of Cannae Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery By John Trumbull - Yale University Art Gallery - The Death of Paulus Aemilius at the Battle of Cannae, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?

How Roman Doctors Treated Battle Wounds

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Statue of the Philip II of Macedon, king of the ancient Kingdom of Macedonia and father of the Alexander the Great.

Who Were The Most Underrated Ancient Generals?

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Depiction of Gaius Marius as victor over the invading Cimbri. Credit: Francesco Saverio Altamura, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Who Were The Most Underrated Roman Generals?

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Bronze statue of Emperor Augustus (Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus) in Rome, Italy. Via Shutterstock / picturepixx

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The Mask of Agamemnon, made at Mycenae around the 16th century BCE (National Archaeological Museum of Athens, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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The torture of Crassus. Image credit: Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Who Were The Most Overrated Roman Generals?

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Heads of Roman emperors exhibited at an archeological site Viminacium in Serbia (Credit: kizaru43 via Shutterstock)

How Many Emperors Did The Roman Empire Have?

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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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Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Image credit: Charles Le Brun via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

The Best Leaders In Ancient Greece

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The Dark Energy Survey's camera imaged the Circinus West Molecular Cloud with its super-powerful lens. CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Kosari (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0

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