The gigantic marble plan of Ancient Rome ... in the ancient city of Rome,” said Claudio Parisi Presicce, Rome cultural ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the ... allowing the team to map dates for when it was inhabited. They hypothesize residents fled the town in fear of enemy ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome ... processions entered Rome through a gate in the city wall, the porta triumphalis.

The Ancient Appian Way (Via Appia Antica) has a history that dates back to 312 B.C. and includes the site of Spartacus' execution (in 71 B.C.), the tomb of Caecilia Metella, and many a Roman ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... in the ancient world was common practice. The city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., and as ...