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.

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an ...

Over a period of some 500 years, from 312 B.C. to A.D. 226, 11 extraordinary aqueducts were built to supply the ancient city. Ten were cut when the Goths besieged Rome in A.D. 537, and today ...

Map of Rome area, showing travelers ... The crumbling yet still magnificent Ancient Rome is at the center of the city, in part of a larger area called the Centro Storico (or historic district).

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of the city’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of ancient Rome. ... Casetta Rossa Idrico on Google Maps. ...

Investigators say they have figured out how bronze statues from a shrine built 2,000 years ago in Asia Minor to venerate the emperors of Rome ended up in museums around the world.

Rome now overwhelms the senses, not just with unrestrained beauty, but with overflowing bins, like rancid coral reefs sprouting pink and blue and yellow garbage bags on seemingly every city street.

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 Forma Urbis, enclosed within a ...

Rome, Jan. 14 (BNA): 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. ... It was displayed on a ...