Starting out as a backwater inhabited by cattle rustlers who made their camps and rudimentary dwellings among the hills and the swamp lands, Rome emerged…
Ara Pacis Augustae (roughly translating to ‘Altar of Augustan Peace’) was conceived as an altar in Rome dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of peace…
Back in April, we talked about how the construction work for line C of Rome’s metro in Piazza Celimontana unraveled an aqueduct dating from 3rd…
A modern technique known as laser cleaning has revealed an incredible facade into the historical legacy of the catacombs of St. Domitilla, after sifting through…
Last year, we talked about how Rome Commissioner Francesco Paolo Tronca approved an ambitious 6 million euro project for the restoration of the Mausoleum Of…
The construction work for line C of Rome’s metro in Piazza Celimontana might just unravel one of the fascinating archaeological discoveries of recent times –…
Pompeii, the ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, boasted an assortment of baths, houses, temples, public structures, graffiti, frescoes and even a gymnasium and a…
Corsica’s ‘claim to fame’ in the historical scope is obviously related to it being the birthplace of a certain Napoleon Bonaparte. But this present day…
It is not often that we can mention McDonald and Roman road in the same sentence. But a fascinating $315,000 restoration project has combined the…
1500-year old ancient Roman houses in what is now the Leicester city-center exhibited its fair share of opulence, as could be evidenced by a recent…
