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The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

Since civilization began, 187,200 tonnes of gold have been mined. If made into a 5-micron wire, it could circle Earth 1.12 ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or even nothing at all. If these researchers manage to dis ...

They will be like a Caesar ... that Julius himself was born this way. So it would seem from the simple reading of Tosefot. Yet most modern historians challenge this legend, because in ancient ...

Unfortunately for them, the governor was a highly ambitious, deeply indebted man — Julius Caesar. Seeing an opportunity for personal gain and glory, Caesar granted permission for the Helvetii to pass ...

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Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the Roman year followed a 10-month, 304-day lunar calendar. As a result, the calendar fell quickly out of sync with the passage of the Earth ...

Julius Caesar's two invasions of Britain took place in 55 and 54 BC. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it evolved into Verulamium, one of the largest towns in Roman Britain.