For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom ... The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million ...

His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions ... Augustus kept Rome, while Antony took Egypt. There he fell under the spell of Cleopatra ...

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient ... civil war that would bring him to power, Julius Caesar spent the winter of 48 BC in Egypt.