Ancient Rome - The Kingdom, Republic & Empire. Discussion of Roman civilization, encompassing the period from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ending in the late 5th century (476 CE or 480 CE or some other late 5th century date, depending on your scholarly position on the matter).
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Syrian Archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad pictured with a 2nd Century Roman Palmyrene family’s funerary relief; Palmyra, Syria. He was beheaded by ISIS in…
The Circus Maximus remains the largest entertainment venue ever built by mankind
Hyper-realistic facial reconstruction of Caesar modeled from his Vatican Museum bust.
The Punic Port of Carthage, a crown jewel of the Mediterranean, now just a common suburb in modern Tunisia.
A Roman bathhouse still in use in Algeria.
2,000-Year-Old Mythological Masterpiece Discovered in Pompeii
The full-scale recreation of the Roman Forum built for the filming of ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’ (1964). Constructed in Las Matas near Madrid, it…
Is there anyone alive that could reproduce this kind of detail in stone?
An Egyptian man taking a selfie with a 2000 years old Roman era portrait of an Egyptian man.
The 2000-year-old Hallaton Helmet is the only Roman helmet ever found in Britain that still has most of its silver-gilt plating attached.
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