A facelift of the Colosseum in Rome that began last fall has revealed ... and lettering in black left by visitors in modern times. Built in the first century, the Colosseum may have held crowds ...

By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity ...

The graffiti of 1st-century ... Rome. Robert’s signature did not draw the ire of Italians like the man recently captured on video carving the name of his girlfriend on the almost 2,000-year-old ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat, carved in the 1st century ... Two portraits of old men from the late Republican period of Rome are must-see ...