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After the Gauls defeated the Romans at the confluence of the Tiber and the Allia rivers, the Gauls marched on to Rome. In late July 390 BCE, the undefended city fell to the invaders to be burnt and sacked. Only on the Capitol Hill, did a...

The 390 BCE battle at the Allia River was fought between the city state of Rome and Gauls from northern Italy. When the Gauls laid siege to the Etruscan city of Clusium, the Romans intervened on behalf of the latter. The Gauls withdrew but...

Ever since the 4th century BCE, the Gallic tribes of northern Italy clashed with the expanding Roman Republic. In 225 BCE, the Boii forged alliances with fellow Gallic tribes of northern Italy and with tribes from across the Alps. The pan-Gallic...

Drawing of the Norse god Freyr by Ludwig Pietsch, 1865 CE. According to the Prose Edda, Freyr received the boar Gullinbursti as a result of a contest between dwarves and their creation, instigated by Loki.

Vae victis! Woe to the vanquished! Brennus throws his sword on the scale after the sack of Rome in 390 BCE. Print by Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, based on the drawing of Jacobus Buys, 1794

An 1803 portrait by Christian Horneman of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). (Beethoven House, Bonn)

The Norns Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Illustration by Ludwig Burger from page 231 of Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden by Wilhelm Wägner and Jakob Nover, Otto Spamer, Leipzig & Berlin, 1882.

The grave of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) in the main cemetery of Vienna.

The original title page of the Third Symphony 'Eroica' by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The symphony was completed in 1803.

Nefertiti (c. 1370 - c. 1336 BCE) was the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Her name means, `the beautiful one has come' and, because of the world-famous bust created by the sculptor Thutmose (discovered in 1912...