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Childhood as we know it is only a recent invention. The French historian Philippe Ariès, in his 1960 book Centuries of Childhood, argued...

Do you know what this is? It’s a Roman dodecahedron. Only a little over a hundred of these have been unearthed. They are made of copper...

If you go to Rome, you might notice Monte Testaccio, a green hill in the middle of the sprawling city. But what you might not know, is...

The fun thing about history is the amount of stuff that doesn’t get recorded. Like, it’s so common that nobody writes it down, because...

One of the most fascinating things to me about any ancient city like Rome is that things are lost over time, and then sometimes even...