Bust of Marco Tullio Cicero Being the greatest lawyer in Rome allowed Marco Tullio Cicerone (106-43 BC) to accumulate a huge personal wealth. Thirty years of honorable career and very salty bills yielded the speaker of Arpino a real estate assets worth a total of about 13 million sesterc
Casimir the Great did not listen to anyone. Neither when he was warned against dangerous entertainment, nor on the way back, when the wounded man ignored all the exhortations of the courtiers and doctors. For the old king Casimir the Great, nothing was more important than having a son. He has ha
Julius Caesar epileptic? No according to two British scholars who support a different thesis, namely that he was prey to small and continuous strokes Julius Caesar:epileptic or suffering from continuous stroke? Which pathology was the great Roman politician and leader suffering? It is
An anonymous American collector bought the remains of Big John, the largest triceratops ever discovered by paleontologists, for 6.65 million euros at an auction in Paris on Thursday. Big John, named after the owner of the farm where his bones were found, roamed what is now South Dakota 66 million