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As empires crumbled and made way for nation-states, the tone of the military parade has endured. The rise of nationalism in ...
Across the globe and through time, talismans have gained important cultural significance, and now those good luck symbols — ...
Wavell SHS celebrated its annual Homecoming Day with a bang as six thrilling matches of schoolboys action unfolded against Ipswich SHS today.
At the recent Annual Council there were some notable events, as there always are, but, in particular, I was pleased to see our Mayor Sharmila Sivarajah, fresh from the annual council which had ...
He transforms into a bull or lion and drives mortals insane ... The “Hera Campana,” a second century AD Roman copy of an ancient Greek original. Hera was one of the most important goddesses in ancient ...
It features a shield in the club’s black and white colours with a gold trim, with two sea horses (hippocampi) included in a nod to the city’s Roman past. Though, the castle, lion and flag that ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The first Roman skeleton to be found with a lion bite is now on display at a top attraction in York. The Press reported on the ground ...
Peretz A team of archaeologists made a singular discovery at the ancient site of Khirbat Ibreika, in southern Israel: four bronze discs with lion heads in relief, accompanied by rings that served as ...
These, among many other exotic animals, are the beasts with which gladiators did battle in amphitheaters across the Roman empire ... such as a lion,” researchers wrote in an article published ...
A Roman gladiator was bitten and probably killed by a lion in York, experts believe after the discovery of bite marks on a skeleton. And the human remains, found in a Roman cemetery in York ...
The idea of a Roman gladiator taking on a lion might sound like something from the recent blockbuster, Gladiator II. But it was a reality for one brave fighter 1,800 years ago - and we're not ...