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.

A "beautifully carved" ancient Roman stone coffin weighing more than ... maintaining and improving major roads in the country—announced in a press release earlier this week.

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.

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire ... projects such as roads, aqueducts and ...

While expanding a section of the A47 from a single lane to a double, members of National Highways and a team of ...

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 ...

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 ...