The Roman Forum has been opened to the public free ... Despite its grandiose monuments, most of Imperial Rome was a squalid maze jammed with crumbling tenement houses lining ten-foot alleys ...

Have you ever dreamt of spending a day in Ancient Rome? Well, now you can with a ... night-time stroll through the ruins of the first Imperial Forum, which is returning to its splendour of 2,000 ...

Female members of the imperial family ... in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a competition with Rome’s leading prostitute ...