The 1st century BC wasn’t exactly peaceful for Rome. Apart from the wars it had to wage against external enemies, it found itself embroiled not in one but in two civil conflicts. The first was a power ...
In September 52 BC, Julius Caesar had a problem. He was deep inside Gaul (modern day France) besieging his last great Gaul enemy, Vercingetorix, at the latter’s fort of Alesia. With his force of ...
Archaeologists have announced a unique discovery: the location where the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar massacred two Germanic tribes 55 BC. The location of this battle, which Caesar wrote ...