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The rich lands of Egypt became the property of Rome after the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE, which spelled the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty that had ruled Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. After the murder...

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...

"The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire," wrote Voltaire, and this interpretation still dominates the popular imagination, so the Holy Roman Empire is treated as a bad joke, a pale...

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 -...

A 1918 photograph of a Canadian soldier writing while in a trench on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Photo of German soldier Wilhelm Traub during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 - February 1943) in the USSR during the Second World War (1939-45). Taub has a Russian submachine gun while he takes cover. Taken...

A photograph showing a German soldier in Kiev, Ukraine after the battle of Kiev in 1941. The battle was a major Axis victory during Operation Barbarossa in the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

Hua-Mu Lan enlists as a soldier instead of her father. Dalongdong Baoan Temple, painted by Pan-Li.

Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse, Inspired by John Keat's Lamia.