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It was in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a major reform of the calendar, which has since been almost universally adopted.

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The scrolls were discovered in 1752 at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Pompeii. This magnificent villa likely belonged to Lucius Calpurnius Piso ...

The fledgling state was led by seven kings before it became a republic in about 509 BCE. By the late second century BCE it was led by Roman general and politician Gaius Marius. Marius and his later ...

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After decades locked away in a basement, some of the finest sculptures from antiquity have been pulled from the gloom and returned to public view in Rome.

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