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Railway construction reveals a coin minted by a Roman officer who proclaimed himself 'emperor of the north' in Britain 1,700 years ago

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Meilan Solly For a brief period in the third century C.E., a Roman naval officer named Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius presided over Britain and northern Gaul as the self-declared “emperor of the north.” Tasked with stopping pirate attacks in the North Sea, Carausius instead seized the raiders' treasure for himself, attracting the ire of the Roman co-emperor Maximian . To escape punishment, he established a breakaway state in 286.
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Railway Construction Reveals a Coin Minted by a Roman Officer Who Proclaimed Himself ‘Emperor of the North’ in Britain 1,700 Years Ago

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Archaeologists in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire unearthed a silver denarius bearing the name of Carausius, who ruled the breakaway state of Britannia between 286 and 293 For a brief period in the third century C.E., a Roman naval officer named Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius presided over Britain and northern Gaul as the self-declared “emperor of the north.” Tasked with stopping pirate attacks in the North Sea, Carausius instead seized the raiders’ treasure for himself, attracting the...
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Thousands of Intimate Photographs Reveal the Everyday Lives of the Romanovs, Russia’s Last Imperial Family

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The Bolsheviks executed the last czar, Nicholas II, and the rest of his family, including his famous daughter Anastasia, 108 years ago. Surviving snapshots open a portal into the royals’ private world When Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov was 11, she sent a lighthearted letter to her father, the Russian czar Nicholas II. “I am sitting and digging in my nose with my left hand,” the young grand duchess reported.
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