Throughout history, sieges have been a testament to the resilience, strategy, and endurance of both attackers and defenders.

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC ...

and the two powers fought many fierce land and naval battles until Rome eventually came out victorious in 146 BC. Besides the ruins of Carthage, however, Tunisia is also famous for hosting some of ...

100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic ...

The Roman maritime weapon was then recovered using ... which were fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians between 264 and 146 BC. The latter had been the dominant force in the western ...

To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest burial underground tunnels in the world. "Hundreds of kilometers of catacombs run underneath the town and its outskirts," says ...

In 72 BC Spartacus and his army marched north towards Gaul (the Roman term for a region covering France, the Low Countries and northern Italy). They fought off a series of attacks from Roman ...

Burns Library. “From Rome to the Heights” features Dutch vocal group Cappella Pratensis, whose residency at BC will culminate in a rare opportunity to experience Renaissance polyphonic music, a style ...

At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the ...

Boston College, the first institution of higher education to operate in the city of Boston, is today among the nation’s foremost universities, a leader in the liberal arts, scientific inquiry, and ...