The Arch of Titus, in color Jews avoided the Arch of Titus and refused to walk under it, in order not to attribute any honor to Titus. By ANAV SILVERMAN SEPTEMBER 28, ...

The arch, dedicated in 81 C.E., celebrates the destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and features an iconic bas-relief carving of a menorah on one side.

The Arch of Titus, a marble monument in the heart of the Roman Forum, commemorates the general and later emperor Titus’ triumph over the Jews in 70 A.D. RNS photo by Josephine McKenna ...

But using state-of-the-art technology, archaeologists Steven Fine, Donald Sanders and Peter Schertz have produced a rendering of what the infamous Arch of Titus – a monument to Rome’s 70 A.D ...

webRNS-TITUS-ARCH4 042517 . A team of experts scans areas of the Arch of Titus for traces of color, using ultraviolet spectrometry to measure wavelengths of reflected light, and identifies ...

Lindsay Neathawk first saw the Arch of Titus on a visit to Rome in 1998. A teenager at the time, she could not have imagined that two decades later she would make the first hi-tech replica of the ...

When the Arch of Titus was built in 82 CE by then Roman Emperor Domitian it was seen as the symbol of an empire united; a reminder to both Romans and Roman subjects that Rome was still the most ...

The Arch of Titus, which celebrates all this, is a big tourist attraction in Rome. It’s also an important part of Rome’s history. Jews, understandably, did not celebrate the monument.

This past hot summer 2024, while Misano was leading his private tour to the Arch of Titus, he happened to bump into Professor Steven Fine with his Yeshiva University students.

The Arch of Titus, in the city’s historic center, was built nearly 2,000 years ago to celebrate the eponymous Roman general’s conquering of Jerusalem and destruction of its Holy Temple.