Archaeologists and historians are shedding extraordinary new light on one of the most important events in human history – the horrific battle which gave birth to the Roman Empire.
A detailed study of a unique victory monument, overlooking the sea in northwest Greece, is revealing some of the long-lost secrets of that crucial military engagement – a great sea battle, fought between Julius Caesar's adoptive son and heir, Octavian (who became Rome's first emperor) and Egypt's Queen Cleopatra(and her Roman lover, Mark Antony).
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