The Roman Salute. Instead, the hand motion like that used by Musk was popularized in 19th-century books, toga plays and, later, early 20th-century films as a fictional fixture of ancient Rome, the ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives ... Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active ...

Roman Bath." We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system, including its elegant aqueducts. Here's what he told us ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient ... to life in the Roman Republic. These lavish processions through Rome were a way ...

Break away from the tourist track with these true Roman experiences ... Meier to house the ancient Altar of Peace built for Emperor Augustus. “The year after I moved to Rome, they started ...

The Roman Forum comprises much of the Ancient Rome's most important structures, from shrines to government houses to monuments. Although much of the complex is in ruins, you can see the remains ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over ... goddesses to make them appear more lifelike. Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful ... at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen, finds that Greco-Roman statues were often perfumed with enticing scents like rose ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...