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What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated ...

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In Ancient Palestine, numerous wars took place between the Israelites and the Philistines. What do we know about these wars?

Archaeologists have made a 'once in a lifetime discovery' as a capital city of an ancient European civilisation has been ...

During the late 2nd century BCE, while Jews in Egypt were well represented in the Ptolemaic government, the political failures of the Hasmonean monarchy in Judea were becoming apparent ...