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A columbarium is an underground chamber, which the Romans used for preserving the ashes of the dead. During the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, hundreds of columbaria lined the consular highways leading out of Rome, although now only some two dozen...

In the wake of the downfall of the Western Roman Empire and the intellectual collapse of Athens, Byzantine scholars engaged in preserving the Classical Greek language and its literature. Thus they became the guardians of a vanished culture...

The Temple of Saturn was one of the great Republican temples of Rome. It still stands overlooking the Forum from the Capitoline hill slopes. It was dedicated in the early 5th Century BCE, rebuilt in the Augustan age by L. Muncius Plancus...

The Quirinal obelisk is one of the many obelisks that the Romans transported to Rome, subsequently repurposed in the papal period in a new location. Specifically, the Quirinal obelisk is one of two obelisks brought from Egypt, designated...

A reconstructed relief panel from the original on the Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 81 CE. The scene, showing the triumph of Titus, is carved in three-quarter view and has Titus riding a four-horse chariot (quadriga) and shows him being crowned...

Over life-size marble mask of Medusa from the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome, 2nd century CE. New Wing, Vatican Museums.

Coins of this design were the first issued by the Roman Republic after 211 BCE. This issue introduced a new weight standard that would be the standard for Roman denarii until the 3rd century CE. The front design depicts the goddess Roma...

The Temple, situated in the Forum, was dedicated to the goddess Roma and the Emperor Augustus. It was constructed between the year 2 BCE and 14 CE. The frieze of floral motives on the architrave is continued around the temple. On its frontal...

Bronze seal mentioning the name, in Latin and in Greek letters, of Coelia Mascellina, daughter of Cnaeus, a female importer of oil and wine from Spain, 2nd CE. Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma, Italy.

The Temple, situated in the Forum, was dedicated to the goddess Roma and Emperor Augustus. It was constructed between 2 BCE and 14 CE, when the emperor died.