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The Basilica at Baelo Claudia in Southern Spain, built around 50-60 CE to the South of the Forum of the city. It was a two-storey building built of ashlar and concrete walls covered in stucco. The city erected a colossal...

Overview of the ruins of Baelo Claudia lying along the beach of Bolonia in southern Spain. The town was founded in the end of the 2nd century BCE.

Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) as king of Spain (r. 1808-1813) in his coronation robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, 19th century. Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau.

Philip of France, Duke of Anjou, Proclaimed King Philip V of Spain, 16 November 1700, oil on canvas by François Gérard, 1824. Philip's accession to the Spanish throne triggered the War of the Spanish Succession...

A model of the the best preserved Tartessian site, Cancho Roano, which is near Zalamea de la Serena in Extremadura, Spain. It was established in the late seventh century BCE and later expanded...

The castle of Miravet, north-east Spain, built by the medieval military order the Knights Templar (c. 1119-1312 CE), which they acquired in 1153 CE.

Roman sculpture blended the idealised perfection of Classical Greek sculpture with a greater aspiration for realism. It also absorbed artistic preferences and styles from the East to create images in stone and bronze which rank...

Childeric I (r. c. 458-481) was a late antiquity king of the Salian Franks during the period of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Childeric's reign solidified the Salians as a dominant Frankish tribe and helped pave the way for...

Gaiseric (r. 428-478 CE, also known as Genseric and Geiseric) was the greatest king of the Vandals who remained undefeated from the time he took the throne until his death. He was probably born in 389 CE near Lake Balaton (present-day...

Ancient Roman culture affected vast numbers of people across the known world of its time, beginning with the rise of the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE) and throughout the duration of the Roman Empire (27 BCE -...