Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire. The inscription had worn away ages ago, but Tassan, a ...

Susan Wright Photography In A.D. 143 or 144, when he was in his early 20s, the future Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius set out for the country estate of his adoptive father, Emperor Antoninus Pius.

It has done no favours to the modern reputation of King Frederick II of Prussia – ‘Frederick the Great ... and in architecture he preferred Roman and English models (the vast Neues Palais at Potsdam ...