The Commodus Passage was a later addition to the Colosseum that allowed emperors to visit the arena without encountering the ...

The Colosseum Archaeological Park in Rome has opened the hidden “Passage of Commodus,” an underground corridor once reserved only for emperors ...

"Giovanni di Paolo (attributed), Siena. 1428-1462. (Tempera, W. 8 x 16.) A martyrdom of a bishop by a Roman emperor. The simplicity of the composition of this class of pictures at this epoch, the ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...