Lasting more than 500 years, the Roman Empire was, at its peak ... by an emperor who held power for the duration of his life. The Roman Empire therefore, officially began in 31 BC when when Octavian – ...

The earliest 'brochs' date from 500-200 BC, and many were still occupied into ... Many are associated with centres of tribal power, trade with the Roman world and rich burials.

This is unsurprising given that Petra, situated some 500 kilometres (around ... prospered from the 4th century BC until the 1st century AD, when the Roman Empire claimed their territory, which ...

Beginning in 500 BC, the emergence of Greek democracy and philosophy laid the foundations of Western civilization. The birth of Christ in 4 BC, during the height of the Roman empire, set the stage for ...

Just before 500 BC, the Persians introduced a new gold coin bearing the ... 1935.99a A number of new religious cults found converts in the Roman Empire during the first three centuries of imperial ...

A marble statue of the Greek god Hermes was discovered in an ancient Roman sewer in southwestern Bulgaria. The 6-foot-8 ...

In southern England, hillforts were built from about 500 BC until the Roman invasion ... one of only three Roman lighthouses to survive from the whole of the former Roman Empire. Thomas Becket, Henry ...

Economies can grow for a long time on the basis of extraction (the Roman Empire, China in the past three decades ... on the Euphrates in the Neolithic Age, Mayan cities in 500 BC, England in 411), and ...

Egypt was the oldest and most imposing civilization of the ancient world, renowned for its invention of writing, its monumental pyramids and temples, and its knowledge of history, astronomy, ...

They were built first in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC in Campania (the area around Naples), a cultural melting pot of Roman, Etruscan and Greek cultures. They had became a common sight in Rome by the ...

It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire ...

Constructed more than 500 years old, the oldest residences on the ... that Julius Caesar himself founded the Roman column of ...