Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...
Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman basilica underneath the basement of an office block. The basilica was ...
The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, ...
As they worked, the team uncovered a smaller rectangular room with a wide set of steps leading down to a well. Archaeologists ...
Magnificent arenas, imperial palaces, forgotten cities... Croatia is home to an exceptional ancient heritage, witness to a ...
The forum is thought to have been built from the late 70s and 80s AD. It was built on a raised platform and is around the same size as a soccer pitch. “This was a clear symbol of Roman power and ...
Over the course of their history, the Romans built a complex and dense network of sewers in the city of Rome. However, only ...
magistrates and political leaders made important decisions affecting Roman London and perhaps even beyond. About A.D. 100, work began to create a much larger forum around the site of the first ...
which was completed in 120 C.E., when the first forum was demolished. “The reveal of London’s first Roman basilica adds to London’s diverse and rich historical landscape,” Chris Hayward of ...
During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.