when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on Tuesday. Accounts, embellished by William Shakespeare, tell how the Roman dictator was stabbed to death by a group of aggrieved ...

ROME, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum. The Museum of the ...

Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years ... The hosts also consider other texts that use the same setting, from the religious epic “Ben-Hur” to Sondheim’s farcical sword ...

The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome ... is Virgil in his text the Aeneid who wrote about ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... After examining ancient texts, researchers found references to the use of perfumes and scented oils on the ...