Buffalo Bill in Rome: A first-hand account of visit at the Colosseum, and of a meeting with Pope Leo XIII

Few know that, in 1890, Rome hosted Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Circus". We actually have a detailed account of those days spent in the eternal cities. In a booklet entitled "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" published in 1893, it is given a detailed account of the two most important episodes occurred on that occasion: a controversial competition and a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII.

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Julius Caesar Murdered!

The Assassination of Julius Caesar is the result of a conspiracy of a group of senators, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus. The dictator's last words are not known with certainty: maybe "You too, son?", but Suetonius claims that Caesar said nothing. Caesar's murder marks the end of the old Republic and the evolution into a new form of government: the empire.

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Egyptian Rome: The Obelisks

One of Rome's nicknames is "the city of obelisks". If we talk about ancient obelisks in general, in Rome there are 13, but only 8 of them are originally Egyptian, while 5 are ancient Roman copies. Obelisks were associated with the cult to the Egyptian Sun god Amon-Ra. The original Egyptian term to indicate this particular monument was "TeKHeN". The word "obelisk" comes originally from ancient Greek: οβελίσκος, "small spit", because of its shape. Obelisks are quadrangular columns carved from a single block of stone (a monolith), which end with a pointed top called "pyramidion" or, in Ancient Egyptian, "BeNBeNeT". The "pyramidion" was generally covered with electrum, an alloy of gold and silver with traces of copper.