Take a flight of discovery high above the historic heart of Rome with breathtaking drone views of the Spanish Steps — a grand ...

Rome, in a sense, has been sacred ground right ... reads the Greek inscription on a marble plaque etched with Jewish symbols — a palm branch, a menorah, a shofar. The Marino Mithraeum, 40 ...

Toward the end of this period of Etruscan influence, the first temple of Jupiter was built on the Capitoline Hill; this temple, although rebuilt many times, became the symbol of Rome’s power.

This ritual was so entrenched in daily life that, to many citizens, it was nothing less than a symbol of Rome itself. To Romans, the baths proved that they were cleaner – and therefore better ...