Milvian Bridge: Did you mean...?

Cendere bridge; columns dedicated to Septimius Severus and Julia Domna; built around 200 CE

A c. 1898 landscape in oils, Bridge Across the Pond, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. The work is an example of Cézanne's preoccupation with representing the underlying essence or structure of Nature rather...

Roman bridge over the river Pyramus, built during the reign of Constantius II. It was restored by Justinian I in the 6th century CE and renovated in 743 and 840 CE. Mopsuestia, Turkey

The Italian campaign of 1796-1797, waged by a young Napoleon Bonaparte, was a decisive campaign in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It led to the defeat of Austria, the beginning of French control of northern Italy, and the end...

Famous painting of a young Napoleon Bonaparte carrying the flag at the Battle of Arcole, during his Italian campaign. Oil on canvas by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1796. Palace of Versailles.

The Battle of Aspern-Essling (21-22 May 1809) was a major battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It saw an Austrian army under Archduke Charles defeat a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) as it attempted to cross...

Semiramis is the semi-divine Warrior-Queen of Assyria, whose reign is most clearly documented by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (l. 90-30 BCE) in his great work Bibliotheca Historica ("Historical Library") written over thirty years...

Constantine I, aka Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from 306 to 337 CE. Realizing that the Roman Empire was too large for one man to adequately rule, Emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) split the empire into two, creating a tetrachy or...

Julia Horne, the University Historian, presents a series of short videos for the Sydney Alumni Magazine (SAM) that shine a fresh light on notable University figures and events, and their place in Australian life.

The Romans built roads over ancient routes and created a huge number of new ones. Engineers were audacious in their plans to join one point to another in as direct a line as possible whatever the difficulties in geography and costs. Consequently...