Long before the day he was assassinated, Caesar had been warned by a soothsayer named Spurinna that the Ides of March (March 15 on the Roman calendar) held great danger for him. On that day in 44 B.C. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, troubled by the prophecy and by a nightmare in which she saw her husband … Continue reading Julius Caeser: Lessons from the Gruesome Murder of a Roman Emperor
Archeologists in southern England have discovered some 40 beheaded skeletons among the remains of 425 bodies found in a late Roman cemetery. A team of some 50 archeologists made the discovery during an excavation at Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on the route of the multi-billion pound high-speed rail link currently under construction. Nearly 10 … Continue reading Archeologists in southern England unearth 40 beheaded skeletons among the remains of 425 Romans
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