ancient rome

  First off, here’s a little Monty Python goodness. One imagines that the siege of Aquileia went down more or less like this (although historians are mixed as to [...Read More...]

NOT THE CLEANERS!! …Sorry, we had to do that…   This episode was a lot of fun to research and write. Our biggest source for this was Appian’s The Civil [...Read More...]

How would you survive an ancient siege? We take a close look at the brutal siege of Carthage at the end of the Punic Wars–and give you a few tips and hacks for staying [...Read More...]