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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
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This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Old Dubai: The Other Side of a Megacity
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Among the first ancient Egyptian accounts on its southern neighbors is an old kingdom inscription that describes a trading expedition to an unspecified region called the land of Punt. Egyptologists had long debated about the location of this mysterious territory before recent...
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Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Plotinus’ Theory of Emanations: How Do Things Come into Being?
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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Who Was Hildegard of Bingen?
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Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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Henry I: The Life & Reign of a Notorious English King
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The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France
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Highlights of Colour Theory: Illustrating The Mysteries of Light In Colour Whels, Tables, Charts And...
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On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
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‘Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe’ by Noel Malcolm review
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This is the first part of the second part of our four? four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander and the Roman legions. Last time, we looked at the Hellenistic army as a complete system, incorporating...
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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‘Reading It Wrong’ by Abigail Williams review
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Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
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A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting
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What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Decoding Titian’s Poesie Series
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
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A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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In classical Marxism, communism is defined as a society of material abundance. It is a society where goods flow in abundance (“after the productive forces have…increased…all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly”, Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
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The Value of Public Space: What is Hostile Architecture?
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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It's 8h00 pm on a cold dark winter night, we are outside of Shimizu harbor motoring in circles and waiting for a response from Shimizu Port Control. The temperature is 4 °C, the wind is blowing hard and our clothes are wet and caked with salt. We’re tired and hungry, waiting for...
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