Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (509‍–‍27 BC), and the Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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KNIGHTSTREASURE

Treasures of the past — medieval history and knights, castles and archaeology, hoards and antiquities, and the relics that outlast empires.

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