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The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

Illustration by Rebecca ... in factories throughout the empire. A question remains: Can garum sociorum, the condiment favored by elite Roman diners, be recovered? Palacios and his team tried ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that a series of extreme droughts between the years 364 and 366 AD ...

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