Claire Holleran/The Conversation Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II features a scene in which a senator, seated at a pavement cafe in…
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A circle of corroded bronze, measuring 12 inches (30cm) across, adorned with golden shapes, was unwittingly discovered in 1999 in…
Ancient Romans reportedly ingested the brains of a bream called the dreamfish to get high, and modern scholarly studies have…
On 27 November 1776 a case came before Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, in which,…
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Absinthe, once the ‘Green Fairy’ – muse of painters and poets – came to haunt the last decades of 19th-century…
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala & Purity Kiura/The Conversation Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to…