The hair color of the ancient Greeks has long intrigued historians. Luckily, evidence of their appearance can be found in ...

Caledonia, as it was known then, was a frustrating place to be a Roman commander. Rome tried three times to conquer it—and ...

Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. Publius Aelius Hadrianus (76-138 AD) was the Roman emperor who ruled for over for more than 20 years over an empire spanning three ...

The most famous of devotee of Asclepius during the Roman imperial period was the rhetor and sophist (professional public speaker) Aelius Aristides. Having just embarked on his public career ...

In roughly 200 AC, Roman Greek physician and philosopher Aelius Galenus (Galen of Pergamon) declared that melancholic women who experienced more stress were at higher risk for getting cancer than ...

He bequeathed the empire to his adopted son—a 41-year-old Spanish senator, self-styled poet, and amateur architect named Publius Aelius Hadrianus. Faced with more territory than Rome could ...

In A.D. 304, the historian Aelius Spartianus steps into a conspiracy spanning centuries in Pastor's satisfyingly convoluted historical, which ranges from Egypt to the villas and back alleys of ...

Nick Hodgson said: "In some ways the most interesting and evocative thing to think about is this Roman bridge, which is what gave Newcastle it's original name - Pons Aelius. "Roughly where the ...

The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...

Wait until autumn, and a seven-night half-board stay at the four-star Aelius Hotel & Spa, on the north coast at Kato Gouves, flying from Gatwick on October 15, costs from £426 per person, with On The ...

Parchami, Aelius (Ali) 2024. Neither Islamic, nor a republic and not Iranian: the legitimacy crisis of the clerical regime. Contemporary Politics, Vol. 30, Issue. 3, p. 316. While the Iranian ...