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 ...

View Architectural capriccio with the Pantheon, Trajan’s column and the temple of Vesta; Architectural capriccio with the three columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri and Saturn By Robert Hubert; oil ...

Jon Coulston, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a leading scholar on the iconography of Trajan’s column in Rome, one of the most detailed military monuments to survive from the Roman Empire ...

The column, inspired by Trajan’s Column in Rome, and heralding the arrival of a new European Caesar, was formed out of cannons captured at Austerlitz.The Arch of Titus in Rome served as the ...

This is how the titanic scenery of Trajan's Markets appears today, enhanced by the new artistic lighting system powered by sophisticated LED technology with almost 260 warm light projectors.

Today, someone visiting Rome can visit Trajan’s Column, a roughly 100-foot monument to his military and engineering achievements after conquering Dacia, part of present-day Romania.

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 ...