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What if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian?

How would history have unfolded if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian? Would they have ruled the Roman Empire?

LiveScience

‘Texas Roadhouse has lost their minds’: Houston woman goes to Texas Roadhouse for the rolls. Then she orders the new deviled eggs

A Houston woman is calling Texas Roadhouse’s new little-known appetizer her “Roman Empire” after tasting it for the first time. Now, folks on TikTok are drooling over the steakhouse’s deviled eggs, begging the chain to make them available at all locations.

The Mary Sue

Hadrian's Wall: The defensive Roman wall that protected the frontier in Britain for 300 years

The wall is the largest Roman archaeological feature in Britain and was built to defend the northernmost limit of the Roman Empire.

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Mini ice age was final death blow to Roman Empire, unusual rocks in Iceland suggest

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

LiveScience

What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease. This has prompted discussions over…

The Conversation

Mysterious amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite history

A third century amulet discovered in an excavation site in Germany provides evidence of spread of Christianity during early Roman Empire

The Independent UK

1,800-year-old silver amulet could rewrite history of Christianity in the early Roman Empire

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

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The best TikTok trends of 2023, from Wes Anderson to the Roman Empire

Evening Standard

Mary Beard says Roman Empire a ‘safe space for being macho’ amid TikTok trend

The historian was speaking amid a trend on social media that highlights how often men ponder the time of togas, swords and emperors.

The Independent UK

The psychology behind some men's obsession with the Roman Empire, according to these brain experts

Your brain on the Roman Empire

Fortune

The Scottish city that is home to the remains of an ancient Roman bathhouse

It may surprise you to learn that the outskirts of greater Glasgow contains the remains of a bathhouse that was constructed by the Roman Empire in the second century.

Daily Record

Climate may have driven Huns to raid

Droughts that plagued Europe 1500 years ago may have incentivized raiders that crushed the Roman Empire

Salon

Battles of the Roman era brought to life at Romanian festival

Near a sleepy village in southern Romania, a festival featuring historic re-enactments evokes a time when the region was part of the easternmost Dacian provinces of the Roman Empire.

ABC News

Roman Era Brought to Life at Romanian Festival

The clatter of shields and battle cries filled the misty air as warriors lifted their swords. Nearby, gladiators fought each other for their lives. A festival that featured historic reenactments brought the ancient Roman era back to life this month near a sleepy village in southern Romania, evoking a time…

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Why Ancient Romans Used Twisted Dice

A pair of researchers from the Universities of California and Drew, believe they may have solved the mystery of why people living during the time of the Roman Empire used lopsided dice in their games. During the time of the Roman Empire, people played a game called taberna (similar to…

Evening Standard

Brad Pitt looked great, but it’s high time we relaxed about men in skirts

It was 1985, a whopping 37 years ago, that I first caught sight of a man walking down a catwalk in a skirt. Snapshots from Jean-Paul Gaultier’s wonderful Et Dieu crea l’homme collection had made their way onto the news pages of a copy of i-D magazine sat on my…

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson keen on forging ‘Roman Empire’ of wider Europe

PM dismisses Emmanuel Macron’s plan for new ‘structure’ – but keen on informal alliance stretching beyond Europe’s borders

The Independent UK

Johnson wants to recreate Roman Empire ideas about European co-operation

The Prime Minister’s plan based on the Roman ‘Mare Nostrum’ would be an alternative to Emmanuel Macron’s vision for a European political community.

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Boris Johnson boasts his plan for EU leaders is like Roman Empire and Eurovision

Boris Johnson has revealed his “Eurovision” plan for new relationships with the EU and a host of neighbouring countries. The Prime Minister compared his blueprint for fresh ties to a new Roman Empire - and the annual singing contest. It came after

Evening Standard

Thomas Tuchel is Chelsea rock amid turmoil and turbulence of Roman Abramovich sanctions

This may be the crumbling of the Roman Empire, but someone forgot to tell Thomas Tuchel.

Manchester Evening News

'Like the last days of the Roman Empire': What it was like to party at the Kitchen, Hulme's notorious after-hours acid house club

A ramshackle squat-cum-nightclub where anything went, the Kitchen was a vital part of Manchester's Acid House scene

The Conversation

What archaeology can tell us about the lives of children in England 1,500 years ago

Following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century, groups from northwest Europe made their way to British shores. Germanic peoples settled in what is now England between the fifth and seventh centuries AD.

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