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Having read Franklin Foer's account in the October issue of The Atlantic describing the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan, I was struck by what it did not contain.

The Mamertine Prison, or the Carcer Tullianum, was an ancient jail in Rome that's been around since way back in the 7th century BC. People used it as a place to lock up prisoners during the Roman Republic and Empire.

More than 2,000 years ago, Rome and Carthage battled for dominance in the Mediterranean during the Second Punic War. In 217BC Hannibal Barca and his Carthaginia

Throughout history, humans have often found themselves at war with other peoples or nations, but there have been a surprising amount of times when animals

Votive offerings of 60 terracotta statuettes, bronze fragments, from 406 BC have been unearthed in the Valley of the Temples, revealing the mysteries of Sicily’s past.