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Is the Roman Empire on your mind? If so, France should be on your list of must-visit destinations! Having been inhabited by ...
Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...
Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...
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A 47-year-old tourist was seriously injured on Friday when he became impaled on railings around the Colosseum after attempting to scale a fence at the Rome landmark ... at night to drink beer inside ...
The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling his position as emperor. Following his precedent, Rome would be ruled by ...
The artists have described the Colosseum as the most challenging location to date. With flames expected to be visible from the opposite end of Via dei Fori Imperiali, the amphitheatre promises to be ...
Quite the opposite, he grappled with the master, taking epic Greek poetry’s sound and structure and forging something distinctly Roman. It’s this deep, foundational link between Virgil and ancient ...
Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of over 100 buried horses dating back to ancient Rome – but the skeletons weren't found in Italy. The excavation took place at Bad Cannstatt ...
In 2022, archeologists found the bones of bears and big cats at the Colosseum in Rome. Phallus maximus? This 2,000-year-old wooden artifact could be an ancient Roman dildo 1,900-year-old Roman ...
“We often have a mental image of these combats occurring at the grand surroundings of the Colosseum in Rome, but these latest findings show that these sporting events had a far reach,” says ...