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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In this c.1891 stereoscopic image by Underwood & Underwood, a cowboy in woolly chaps demonstrates lasso techniques beside a covered wagon, as others look on. Scenes like this reflect the working life and performative culture of the late 19th-century American West.
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These three unsuspecting inventions won the American Wild West – but did they destroy it too?

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Katya Adler and Rita Levi-Montalcini
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My history heroKatya Adler chooses Rita Levi-Montalcini. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 19th-century illustration, based on ancient Greek vase imagery, depicts two mounted Amazons chasing after two fleeing youths. Scenes like this reflect classical fascination with the myth of warrior women.
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Were the Amazons just a “male fantasy”? Here’s the truth behind the ancient world’s warrior women

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Quiz of the weekHow were Cleopatra and Arsinoe IV related?

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