The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Perga’s was once a key sculpture-producing location for the entire Roman Empire. The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled laborers’ production of marble ...

the capital of the province of Britannia in the Roman Empire. The original forum complex was about the size of a soccer field, but it was demolished around A.D. 120 to make way for the second ...

By 115 AD, he had captured the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon and had reached the Persian Gulf. The Roman Empire now stretched across Europe and the Middle East, from the borders of Scotland to ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

And all the land they controlled came to be known as the Roman Empire. This is the great city of Rome in Italy. It was once the capital of the Roman Empire and this is what it looks like today.

A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe Helen Dudar Page 19 of 19 Explore Subscribe Newsletters ...