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The hunt for Caesar’s killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?

Marble bust of Nero

Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing Roman Saturnalia banquet. (Photo by Alamy)

Saturnalia: the origins of the debauched Roman 'Christmas'

Chess players in the 14th century

Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?

Marble bust of Caligula

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

What was the Roman Empire's greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9

Your guide to the Roman empire: when it was formed, why it split and how it failed, plus its most colourful emperors

The bloody rise of Augustus

Evening Light on Hadrian's Wall

The Romans in Britain: exploitation or innovation?

What are Roman numerals, where do they come from and how do you read them?

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires

Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

Your guide to...the Punic Wars

Roman republic

Your guide to the Roman Republic

Iron Age bronze head

The Celts in Britain: everything you need to know

Mosaic showing gladiators, Roman Civilization, 4th century

Bread and circuses: what happened in the amphitheatres of the Roman empire?

Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants

Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

Your guide to...the fall of Rome

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

Julius CaesarYour guide to the Roman dictator

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

Summer reads 2020: the best history books to take on holiday (or staycation)

Chew Valley Hoard

Unburied treasures: the 10 greatest discoveries made by the British public

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose

Portrait head of Roman Emperor Nero circa AD 59-64. (Photo by Alamy)

Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain: course certificate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pompeii,Italy

What was life like in ancient Pompeii? Mary Beard shares an A-Z guide