Phaustulus bringing Romulus and Remus to Acca Larentia ... A Guided Tour of the Largest Handcrafted Model of Imperial Rome ...

The initial setting of the myth of Rome's foundation is depicted on a silver denarius of Gallienus from the third century, ...

You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

An inevitable fact of interviewing Ridley Scott is that, whatever movie he’s about to release, you’ll find him already ...

Vatican or Colosseum. Colosseum or Vatican. It’s hard to know where to start with a guide to the sites of Rome. This is a ...

Robert Smith is convinced the aliens have won. "The invasion has happened—it's all over," says the University of Alberta ...

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

In ancient Rome, the priestesses of the goddess Vesta were known as the Vestal Virgins. This was an elite group of young ...

In the early days, Rome was ruled by kings. Romulus was supposedly the first king. Rome later became a republic. The republic didn’t allow one person to have complete control of the city.