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Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an ...
Sasha Trubetskoy of Sasha’s Maps turned the roads of ancient Rome circa 125 AD into a modern city subway map using information from the Stanford ORBIS model, The Pelagios Network, the Antonine ...
With miles of winding streets, along or between the city's historic seven hills, Rome is a lot to maneuver almost any way you look at it. Understanding the Eternal City's layout can help you from ...
To commit tax fraud with the slave trade in the most remote corner of the Roman world, what would you have to do, and what would have made the effort profitable? The ancient scheme has resonated ...
maps, tables, chron., gloss ... However, it can also be simply read as a valuable sourcebook about ancient Rome and its political situation at that pivotal moment. Mulligan begins by weaving a story ...
From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...
New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...
The Roman Forum comprises much of the Ancient Rome's most important structures, from shrines to government houses to monuments. Although much of the complex is in ruins, you can see the remains ...
Contemporary writings on art, including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures in ancient Greece were painted and not left with the white marble exposed.
UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to immerse themselves in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome and trace their influence through history to the present day. Students ...