In 89 BCE, Rome dispatched forces under the command of general Lucius Cornelius Sulla to lay siege to the city. It was one of ...

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Beyond the entrance of Rome's newest metro station under the Colosseum, there are display cases filled with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during a decade-long construction project. Spread out ...

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According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 ...

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