The remarkable 1500-year-old Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona is widely viewed as the world’s oldest continuously operating ...

View Roman portrait (3rd Century) By Roman School 3rd Century; fragmentary carved stone; H. 22 cm.; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

However, a century later, scientists showed that this was actually multiple different sunspots appearing in the same place. Instead, the longest lasting sunspot on record is most likely a dark ...

In the 17th century, during the Spanish Empire, two Christian monuments were built with Roman marble that show the main signs of the city’s historical identity: the Obelisk of Santa Eulalia and the ...

Qishan route was where the renowned 3rd-century strategist Zhuge Liang regretted his failed expeditions and unfulfilled ambitions to unite the nation. On Lizhi route, galloping horses carried ...

The Roman Republic took possession of the southern and eastern ... issuing coins from the late 3rd century to the 1st century B.C. Finding coin blanks in a repurposed section of the city wall suggests ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen ... of people were killed over the following years. Since the 17th century, the British-owned East India Company had controlled large parts ...

The Roman Empire was one of the largest empires in history. It grew out of the earlier Roman Republic, when Octavian became Emperor Augustus in 27 BC. The empire remained largely intact until 476 AD, ...

Now, Charles and his siblings were brought up in one of the most sophisticated courts in 16 th century Europe. Mechelen was where ... as he pried the Habsburg Netherlands out of the Holy Roman Empire ...

Thanjavur's past reaches back more than 1,000 years, to the era of the powerful Chola empire. In about the 9th century CE, it became their capital and a hub of art, architecture, and faith.