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A Roman galley warship

Q&AHow did a crow help Rome defeat Carthage?

A relief portrays patrons of a Roman tavern. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The dangerous streets of ancient Rome.

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes.

Hadrian's Wall

Welcome to Britannia: Roman Britain in AD 130.

Plovdiv's old town

My favourite place: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Banquet at a wealthy home in ancient Rome. (Photo by North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy)

Dormice, ostrich meat and fresh fish: the surprising foods eaten in ancient Rome.

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner.

Bathhouse

Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine.

My favourite place: Miles Russell

Roman wallpainting of a dinner party, Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy)

What did people eat in Ancient Rome?

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city

Pliny the Elder depicted in a mid-12th century miniature, writing and giving his book to Roman emperor Vespasian. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

My history heroPliny the Elder (AD 23–79).

Photo of a salt cellar

Q&AWho do we say 'with a pinch of salt'?

Bust of Emperor Alexander Severus

The LibraryAncient Rome in crisis.

5 facts about Caligula

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

Relief of a charioteer

Q&AWho was the highest-paid sportsman in history?

Delphi and the Spanish empire.

A mosaic depicting the poet Virgil writing the Aeneid. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

How to succeed in Ancient Rome.

Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?

Roman slavery and the man who started the First World War.

Illustration of the Zodiac Man

General ancient history

Q&AWhy did physicians ‘bleed’ their patients?

Picture of the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus

Q&AWhat happened to the last emperor of Rome?

Q&AWhat does it mean to 'cross the Rubicon'?

Photo of a bishop's mitre

Q&AWhy are bishops called Pontiffs?

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics.

Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual".

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace.

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts.