But it shuttered when World War II began, ending public access to ... to appreciate the fragmentary state of ancient Roman ...

Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by pirates, or slaves bought outside Roman territory. In hard times, it was not ...

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...

War is war. The Roman legions were known to be quite violent ... Trajan’s Forum had dozens of statues of handsome, bearded Dacian warriors, a proud marble army in the very heart of Rome.