Transport yourself back in time to the days where kings and queens ruled, and see over 100 daily shows.
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Caroline Ritzie,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
Sitting for a portrait was once reserved for the elite, with kings, queens, and nobility commissioning grand works to immortalize themselves and assert their authority.
Each coin is effectively a miniature billboard of power – emperors, gods, temples, and battle scenes, all in the highest artistic form of the ancient world.
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Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Still, the Jews chafed under Roman rule and finally rebelled in 66 CE, a revolt which invited the wrath of the Roman legions led by future emperors Vespasian and his son Titus.
The conservative Yomiuri issued its own proposal in May, calling for an urgent revision to the Imperial House Law to give royal status to husbands and children of princesses and allow women to succeed the throne.
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Mari Yamaguchi,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
Each child will have the chance to meet and take photos with their favorite princesses during a special meet-and-greet.
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Tiffani Jackson Skinner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
Across centuries, rulers who built their power on fear or oppression seemed immovable in their day.
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John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
Writers and rulers across Europe and the Americas have looked back to Virgil’s epic as a model for their own founding myths, in the construction of new nations, new colonies, new empires.
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