Trajan’s Column, with a statue of St. Peter installed by a Renaissance pope on top, towers over the ruins of Trajan’s Forum, which once included two libraries and a grand civic space paid for ...

Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

Apollodorus of Damascus, the Greek architectural genius who built Emperor Trajan’s Rome, from his Column to the longest ...

The column was erected in A.D. 113 to celebrate Trajan's two successful campaigns against the Dacians, depicted in carved relief. Trajan, who reigned from 98 to 117, pushed the boundaries of the ...

Trajan’s Column in Rome commemorates Emperor Trajan’s victory over Dacian Wars in 155 bas relief scenes. This stop-motion video outlines the current theory on how the towering structure was built.

Taken from the first-century letterforms originally etched on Rome’s famous Trajan Column, the letters didn’t actually become a typeface until 1989, when they were digitally scanned and ...

ROME - 'Trajan's Column. The tale of a symbol' is showing at the Colosseum Archaeological Park, organised and promoted by the Colosseum Archaeological Park and the Galileo Museum - Institute and ...

Considered as the first shopping mall in history, Trajan’s Market is a huge semicircular mass of brick, part of which remains buried under modern buildings and paradoxically may have had very little ...

The story of Emperor Trajan’s victory over a mighty barbarian empire isn’t just one for the books. It’s also told in 155 scenes carved in a spiral frieze on a monumental column. In back-to ...