Roman

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

A St Patrick's Day Parade in America, Union Square, 1870s, from a colour lithograph.

The history of St Patrick’s Day

Podcast Website large Simon Schama

Schama on ‘Civilisations’

Roman mosaic of a dog, bearing the legend 'Cave Canem' underneath, from Pompeii, from Naples National Museum's collection, 1st century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about animals in ancient Rome

The Terracotta Warriors podcast

The Terracotta Warriors

Replica chariot. (© Mr. Ziyu Qiu)

In pictures: The Terracotta Warriors

Appia Antica (The Appian Way), Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe. (Getty)

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?

The skull of a Roman man from London

In pictures: Romans and their dead

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What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

Julius Caesar, depicted in a first-century BC bust

Caesar’s British gamble

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7 things that happened in December through history

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Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth

From The Library

Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower

From The Library