When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... your trip to Rome just happens to coincide with this year-long celebration, there’s a full calendar of not-to-be-missed concerts, art exhibits ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the ... but even in Rome itself.' Another historian, Flavius Josephus, wrote a book about Jewish history, featuring a passage that reads: 'Now ...

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome ... Artists have been inspired by Roman art and painted Roman legends ...

Because they reflected instead the ethos of Roman culture and politics. Ancient thought had a tendency to view history as a story of decay rather than of progress. And more significant still ...