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During the 1st century CE, a sect of Jews in Jerusalem claimed that their teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, was the 'messiah' of Israel. 'Messiah' meant 'anointed...

Our experts' pick of the very best wargames from antiquity through to the medieval period Outside World War II, no other period of armed conflict offers as much variety and depth as the ancient world, if for no other reason than its temporal length. Using the time-honoured Wargames Research Group miniatures rules convention, ‘ancients’ actually covers from about 3000 BC to 1485 AD, although this is because the WRG lumps ‘ancient’ and ‘medieval’ together into one grouping – hence our rather expansive title to this guide! 1485 signifies a commonly accepted time where gunpowder u...

By Steve Donoghue Correspondent So persuasive, so memorable, is the artistry of William Shakespeare that devotees of his plays who are only casual skimmers of history might be surprised to remember that it wasn’t just Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius who assassinated Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. Despite the fact that they’re the only two being forever gnawed in the jaws of Dante’s Satan at the heart of the Inferno, it was actually a small crowd of senators who drove the knives in. And their goals were so passionately focused – kill this one man the...

Gal Gadot has defended her plans to play Cleopatra following accusations of whitewashing When news broke in October, critics said an Arab or African actress should play the ancient Egyptian queen But despite ruling over Egypt, Cleopatra traced her ancestry to Macedonian Greece - meaning she was likely fair-skinned like Gadot, a white, Israeli actress Cleopatra was the daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII, a member of the Macedonian Greek royal family that ruled Egypt for 275 years   Gadot told BBC Arabic: 'First of all, if you want to be true to the facts, then Cleopatra was Macedonian'   Actre...