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The Battle of Rivoli (14-15 January 1797) was the climactic battle of Napoleon's Italian Campaign of 1796-97. A fourth and final attempt by the Austrian army to relieve the siege of Mantua was thwarted by Napoleon Bonaparte's...

More than 2,000 years ago, extremely wealthy Romans lived on the sunny shores of the Bay of Naples at Pompeii and in opulent villas nearby, unconcerned about Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Julius Caesar...

Trade has been going on for as long as humans have needed or wanted something that others had and they did not. Bartering for goods and trade in kind developed into more sophisticated forms of exchanges using commonly...

Photograph of a Fresco in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. The fresco by Giuseppe Cesari is dated to 1612-13 CE. It depicts the duel between the Roman Horatii and Alban Curatii triplets during the reign of Tullus Hostilis...

A 2nd-century CE Roman statue group of two sighthounds playing, discovered in 1774 CE in Monte Cagniolo, Italy. The group was once nicknamed "The Townley Greyhounds", after their owner Charles Townley. However, the dogs...

This marble statue came from the Villa at Monte Calvo in Sabina, Italy. In the villa, the boyish satyr was part of a fountain, for the jug is pierced for receiving a water pipe. The Berlin statue belongs to a series...

Explore how werewolves have evolved in folklore, literature, and pop culture throughout history, and where these stories originated. – Stories of werewolves have existed for thousands of years and...

The sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, is a magnificent sacred complex, dedicated to the goddess Fortuna, which dates back to the end of 2nd century B.C. It is highly likely that...