Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...
The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...
When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.
The cinaedus was already a recognizable figure in ancient Greece and was first mentioned in the fourth century B.C. by Plato. He says little more than that a cinaedus’ life was terrible, base and ...
Indeed, beneath the monument is "the City of Water" – a hidden maze, an ancient Roman apartment complex dating to the 1st Century CE called the Vicus Caprarius, as well as the aqueduct that ...