The Nemi Ships were elaborate floating palaces built by Caligula in the 1st Century AD.
The Nemi Ships were large Roman vessels, essentially floating palaces built in the 1st century at Lake Nemi by the Roman Emperor Caligula.
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Above Sotheby’s auction house is the oldest private sculpture on display outdoors in London.
Above the entrance to Sotheby's auction house on 34-35 New Bond Street W1 is an ancient Egyptian statue of the lion-goddess Sekhmet.
In Buckinghamshire, England is a network of tunnels that important 18th century aristocrats met to carry out mock-pagan rituals and orgies.
The tunnels, named today the Hellfire Caves or West Wycombe Caves are a network of man-made tunnels stretching up to 500 metres into the southern
HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen evaded Japanese bombers in WWII by disguising itself as an island
To escape detection by Japanese aircraft (which the minesweeper did not have the armament to defend effectively against), the ship was heavily camouflaged with jungle
In London is a park dedicated to the otherwise forgotten heroic acts of self sacrifice
In 1900, the park became the location for George Frederic Watts’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a memorial to ordinary people who died while saving
The Romans created a tax on urine
Vespasian imposed a Urine Tax (Latin: vectigal urinae) on the distribution of urine from public urinals in Rome's Cloaca Maxima (great sewer) system.
Alderney lays claim to having the best-preserved small Roman fort in Britain
An overgrown site on Alderney was only in the last decade found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in Britain.
London was once home to an ancient Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Isis
Evidence for a temple dedicated to the goddess Isis was revealed by graffiti on a 1st century flagon unearthed in Tooley Street, Southwark which read
There are at least two runic Viking inscriptions in Hagia Sophia’s marble parapets in Istanbul
They may have been engraved by members of the Varangian Guard who were an elite unit of the Byzantine Army, from the 10th to the
The remains of the only visible WW1 German U-Boat wreck in the UK
The U-Boat was confiscated at the end of the Great War and was taken up the River Medway along with 25 other U-Boats to be
If you linked together all the Inca roads it would almost wrap around the circumference of our entire planet.
The Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
Fanta was originally created in Nazi Germany due to a trade embargo on Coca-Cola ingredients
Fanta originated in Nazi Germany due to difficulties in Germany being able to import Coca-Cola syrup during World War II from a trade embargo.