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A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

Your guide to Julius Caesar, the Roman general and dictator

Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to... the Silk Road

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

Tholos of Delphi in Greece. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Everything you ever wanted to know about ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask

What's History's Greatest Mystery?

General ancient history

What is history’s greatest mystery?

Hadrian's Wall (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1987), near Housesteads, England, United Kingdom, Roman civilization, 2nd century.

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The battle of First Bar, 1841

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WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

Second World War

How and when did the Second World War end?

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

A view of Mount Everest

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Pyongyang wreckage, Korean War

The Korean War “created a blood debt that is crucial to understanding North Korean behaviour ever since”

US Soldiers march North Koreans along a dirt road during the Korean War, 1950–53 (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the Korean War

This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

Second World War

In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Ministry Of Home Defence (Scientific Advisers' Branch), A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945. (Photo by IWM via Getty Images)

Second World War

The science behind the bombing of Hiroshima

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world