ROME — For centuries, historians and architecture critics have been embarrassed by buildings like San Giorgio in Velabro. The exterior of the medieval church is inoffensive enough: trim portico, ...
Rome (CNN) — Rome, as it’s often said, wasn’t built in a day. And nowhere is that more evident than its state-of-the-art Metro Line C, an ambitious project meant to help relieve the Italian capital’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2011, archaeologists uncovered a masonry wall and other remains at the site off Manton Lane in Bedford [Albion Archaeology] ...
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At France's first Roman colony, excavators uncovered a curtain wall and tower foundations that recast the port city of Narbonne's early urban plan
The ruins at Narbonne stand on the spot where Rome first planted its architectural and cultural flag beyond the Italian Alps.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ almsgiver has gone down a Rome manhole to restore electricity for hundreds of homeless people living in an unused state-owned building. Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski told ...
The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...
The majestic structures of ancient Rome have survived for millennia — a testament to the ingenuity of Roman engineers, who perfected the use of concrete. But how did their construction materials help ...
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