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Topic: Ancient Rome

View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II" (Paramount Pictures)

Real history trumps Gladiator II fiction

Nicholas Liu
Female Gladiator Warrior (Getty Images/Lorado)

The gladiatrix missing from Gladiator II

Jenny Lyons-Cunha
Garum (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Garum, the condiment that fell with Rome

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Medal with Portrait of Caligula in the 6th Book, from Tibère ou les six premiers livres es Annales de Tacite Traduits par M. l'abbé de la Bléterie Professeur d'Eloquence au Collège Royal et de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale, published in 1768. Artist Augustin de Saint-Aubin. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Caligula's garden is open

Matthew Rozsa
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., arrives to speak to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From Ancient Rome to modern D.C.

Timothy Joseph - The Conversation
A fisherman drives a boat near Ilulissat, Greenland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Subtle marks of Romans left in ice cores

Elisa Bonnin
Mary Beard (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc./Robin Cormack)

We still think like Romans

Scott Timberg
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(AP/Alex Brandon)

Ted Cruz's imperialist fantasy

Colin P. Elliott

Celts: Smarter than you think

Laura Miller
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