All roads really do lead to Rome. So many cultures, countries and customs stem from the influential history of this city. And ...

In Rome’s case, all roads led to one place. The proverb is medieval, but the idea is ancient. Early in his reign, Augustus installed the milliarium aureum, the golden milestone, in the Roman Forum.

better known for another great pioneering structure of ancient Rome: the Appian Way, one of the first major Roman roads. Three more aqueducts were built in the third and second centuries B.C ...

Leigh Fermor had stumbled on the ruins of ancient Carnuntum, a Roman legionary camp from the ... as Catherine Fletcher reminds us in “The Roads to Rome.” Ms. Fletcher, a historian at ...

From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient ... Roman roads remain almost as iconic as they were in the 1st century AD. Rome's ...

Here you can walk along Roman roads past tombs and into the maze ... Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome’ is published by Abacus.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city of brick and ...

and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to immerse themselves in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome and trace their influence through history to the ...