Curse tablet

Eyguieres curse tablet

Recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. 's cell in Birmingham Jail at the National Civil Rights Museum

A map of Belgic Gaul in the first century BC, showing the relative position of the Nervii

01The Nervii reportedly forbade wine and merchants among themselves to keep their warriors undiluted by Roman goods or influence.
02Caesar describes grabbing a shield from an anonymous soldier and entering the front rank personally — he did not know the man's name.
03The Nervii, once 60,000 warriors strong by Caesar's count, were reduced to 500 fighting men and three chieftains after the battle at the Sabis.

A Jake and Dinos Chapman fused mannequin piece from the exhibition Come and See at the Serpentine Gallery

Romans inscribed enemies' names on lead tablets, rolled them tight, drove nails through them, and buried them at tombs or threw them into springs — asking the restless dead to drag the living down.