How a reshoot of ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ gave rise to one of Cinema’s Greatest Scenes.
When I heard Gareth Edwards was going to direct a new Star Wars movie in the mid 2010s, I thoughtContinue Reading
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Averil Cameron is one of the leading English-speaking scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium. She has made Byzantium, in particular,Continue Reading
Five important history books of 2015.
Great empires and war have a strong presence in this list for 2015. First of all, Mary Beard’s SPQR: AContinue Reading
The Force Awaits Us!
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The 1,700 year old Roman and Byzantine-era mosaics of Lod.
The construction and modernization of Israeli infrastructure across fields, suburban blocks, highways and streets has seen an unprecedented wave ofContinue Reading
Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia.
Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia.Continue Reading
Albert Einstein: The genius of general relativity and the father of modern physics.
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Valentinian I: The last of the triumphant Roman emperors in the west.
Valentinian is sometimes described as a brooding and violent man. Ammianus Marcellinus, in particular, does not mince his words describingContinue Reading
A short history of Byzantium: No. 24 Brothers in power, migration and pending disaster!
The events of the second half of the fourth century are some of the most dramatic in the annals ofContinue Reading
War Horse Part 4: The Persians
The rise of the Achaemenid or Persian Empire in the sixth century BC was swift, arguably due to the endeavoursContinue Reading
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