They came, they saw, and they squandered a year's worth of lessons on Roman history.

Australian schools were Wednesday investigating how a curriculum blunder ended with pupils mistakenly studying Augustus instead of Julius Caesar.

The high school students only realised they had brushed up on the wrong Roman ruler when they crossed the Rubicon to sit down for their final-year exams.

Queensland state education minister John-Paul Langbroek said the mishap was anything but ancient history for at least 140 traumatised students across nine schools.

"For all of us, as parents or students who have been through situations like this, it would have been extremely traumatic," he told reporters.

"And I want to reassure those students, and their parents, and the teachers affected, that we'll be mak

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