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As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...
These LEGO IDEAS sets imagine the regal buildings, soaring temples, and busy streets of Rome in plastic bricks.
The Vatican Museums on June 26 unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that ...
In 324 AD, at the Battle of Adrianople, Roman Emperor Constantine I defeated his co-emperor Licinius, who fled to Byzantium.
Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...
The Vatican Museums have unveiled its newly restored Hall of Constantine, one of its Raphael Rooms, including two newly ...
A farmer’s unexpected discovery in Slovakia has revealed a stunning 1,000-year-old crown ...
Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...
Using carbonate fragments, researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have deciphered the complex history of the Arles ...
By Victoria Cardiel After a decade of painstaking restoration, the imposing Hall of Constantine in the Vatican’s Apostolic ...
It’s not coincidental that today’s optional memorial follows the Solemnity of Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul stand at ...
The reception room, which was painted by Raphael and his students starting in the first quarter-century of the 1500s, is dedicated to the fourth-century Roman emperor Constantine, whose embrace of ...