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 ...

Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome, but Rome could not rule itself. It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC ...

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 ...