The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

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

Among the buildings waiting to be fully restored is L’Aquila’s massive, daunting castle, built by southern Italy’s Spanish ...

Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

Find these five and discover more art on our Google map of Rome.

Engineers are looking to Ancient Roman architecture like the Colosseum and the Pantheon when it comes to future “recipes” of ...

The Pantheon in Rome is a marvel of engineering. It’s an unreinforced concrete dome that’s stood tall and proud for nearly two millennia. The aqueducts that once carried water across the empire still ...

An 18th-century British ambassador to Italy was so fascinated by volcanoes that he designed a multimedia device to make ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...